Synopsis
A newly paralyzed DJ gets more than he bargained for when he seeks out the world of faith healing.
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Cast
- Christopher Thornton'Delicious' Dean O'Dwyer
- Mark RuffaloFather Joe
- Juliette LewisAriel Lee
- Orlando BloomThe Stain
- Laura LinneyNina Hogue
- Noah EmmerichRene Faubacher
- James KarenFather Rohn
- John Carroll LynchEvangelist Carroll
- Robert WisdomPrendell
- Dov TiefenbachOogie
Recommendations
- 60
The Hollywood Reporter
Ruffalo gives voice to the film's unironic point of view. - 60
Time Out
A mess-but a beautiful one, crammed with enough big ideas and outsize performances for three movies. - 58
The A.V. Club
The character's miraculous gift never plays as more than a melodramatic contrivance-it's a gimmick, not an outgrowth of faith. The movie reaches for the heart, but only comes back with a balloon filled with fake blood and chicken livers. - 50
Village Voice
Ruffalo has assembled an exceptional cast-to surround writer and star Christopher Thornton, but a script that favors incident over story and direction that crowds scenes instead of letting them breathe make for curiously rough going. - 50
Observer
An odd, confusing, ugly and mostly indigestible movie about religious hysteria and rock 'n' roll-two subjects I find about as interesting as opening a tattoo parlor. I wish I liked the movie half as much as I like the actor. - 50
New York Post
Interesting but never compelling. - 42
Christian Science Monitor
This semiexpressionist fantasia is a botch. - 40
Variety
This offbeat effort proves more admirable for its ambition than anything else, as the uneasy mix of satire, allegory, grittiness and redemption never quite jells.
