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Release Date: 30 January, 2001 Retail Price: $24.98 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: Complete Cast (8 total) |
Jesus' Son Reviews
Funny, dark, and most of all, darn good entertainment.
As is the case with most of the films I watch, I saw this movie on IFC one day in 2003. I have to say, it was one of the most compelling films I've saw that year. The basic premise deals with a young man who's trying to keep his life in order while attempting to say goodbye to heroine and other notable drugs. His one huge problem is that everything in his life before drug rehab revolves around the narcotics he's so earnestly trying to flee from. The result is a journey - spiritual and psychological - where the young man begins to see life for what it really is: simple beauty, and finds himself taking pleasure in listening to a woman singing each day as he walks from work and the insane patients he works with.
Fluent all throughout this film, characters that we encounter are there for a reason and in some ways, each newfound character is like another individual in our anti-heroe's own personal odyssey.
Jack Black, Denis Leary, Dennis Hopper, Holly Hunter and Will Patton(Mothman Prophecies, Armageddon) also make notable apperances.
One of my top ten indy films, Jesus' Son lacks the sacrilegious tones that many might envision it possesses. A worthwhile film for fans of story-based screen plays.
Sad, moving, funny, surprising -- see it!
A great movie -- hilarious, bleak, uplifting, really runs the gamut of emotions.
Pretentious opera fans and others who can't bother to imagine what life may be like outside their narrow existence may dismiss this movie as being about a hopeless junkie loser with the same cursory manner they use to order a Starbucks every morning. Some people are unable to see certain others as people too. Their loss.
Those who are able to open their eyes will see it's about a junkie drifter overcoming tragedy and loss to become a feeling human being again. There isn't much of a plot, but it's directed with stunning empathy and lyricism. The scenes between FH and Michelle are so raw and full of their clawing, aching need for each other they're at once beautiful and difficult to watch. Jack Black's scene in the hospital is outrageous. The movie's final scenes are emotional and poignant in a very odd and moving way, like nothing I've ever seen but the feeling is familiar.
I don't know much about the director, Alison McLean, but I'm a huge fan based on this movie and her equally odd and excellent earlier film, Crush. Her latest work is a documentary called "Persons Of Interest" and is about Arab americans detained after September 11, and she also directed an episode of HBO's Carnivale. I hope to see more movies from her soon.
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