Synopsis
A documentary look, mostly through the eyes of Tammy Faye Bakker Messner, at her rise and fall as a popular televangelist with husband Jim Bakker.
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Cast
- RuPaulNarrator
- Tammy Faye BakkerHerself
- Jim BakkerHimself
- Mel WhiteSelf - Executive Director, Soul Force Ministry
- Roe MessnerSelf
- Jay BakkerSelf
Recommendations
- 80
Dallas Observer
It contains nary a dull moment. - 80
L.A. Weekly
It's a testimony to the integrity and poignancy of Tammy Faye herself that she comes off as a cool, even complex, woman. - 75
Boston Globe
A lively and affectionate cross between an infomercial and a genuflection. - 75
San Francisco Chronicle
Demonstrates, if nothing else, that there's a genuine person -- chastened by mistakes and more compassionate, perhaps, for all she's suffered -- beneath the war paint and the stardust. - 75
USA Today
A largely irresistible puff piece. - 70
TV Guide Magazine
Whatever the complicated truth about PTL, Tammy Faye's homespun charisma is undeniable; if only the Lord would give her the strength to say, "Get thee behind me, false eyelashes!" - 70
Time
Maybe this documentary is a bit too enthralled by her, but she emerges from it a game girl, a gay activist and a curiously sympathetic figure. - 70
Los Angeles Times
(To be) thoroughly enjoyed as a privileged look at one of the loopiest of late 20th century lives.
