Frisbee: The Life and Death of a Hippie Preacher
Frisbee: The Life and Death of a Hippie Preacher

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Lonnie Frisbee was a young hippie seeker fully immersed in the 1960s counter culture when he claimed to have experienced an encounter with God while on an acid trip. This event so transformed him that Lonnie became an itinerant Christian evangelist, something of a John the Baptist of Southern California who compelled thousands of fellow spiritual seekers to make a profession of faith in Jesus Christ. During the 1970s Lonnie Frisbee became widely known as California's "hippie ... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Frisbee: The Life and Death of a Hippie Preacher:

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Troy Perry
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Marjoe Gortner

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Lonnie Frisbee was a young hippie seeker fully immersed in the 1960s counter culture when he claimed to have experienced an encounter with God while on an acid trip. This event so transformed him that Lonnie became an itinerant Christian evangelist, something of a John the Baptist of Southern California who compelled thousands of fellow spiritual seekers to make a profession of faith in Jesus Christ. During the 1970s Lonnie Frisbee became widely known as California's "hippie preacher," the quintessential "Jesus freak" whose pictures frequented such magazines as Time and Life as the media told the story of a burgeoning "Jesus movement." Lonnie Frisbee provided the charismatic spark that launched the Calvary Chapel church into a worldwide ministry and propelled many fledgling leaders into some of the most powerful movers and shakers of the evangelical movement. During the 1980s Lonnie was at the center of the "signs and wonders" movement, one that focused on reviving the practice of spiritual power through diving healing, speaking in tongues and other demonstrative manners of manifesting the power of God. But besides his influence and beyond the miraculous stories that swirl in the wake of his life, what makes the story most fascinating is that his call into the ministry came while deeply involved in the Laguna Beach homosexual scene. Treated with contempt by the ministers whom he helped establish, Lonnie has been written out of their collective histories. He died as as result of the AIDS virus in 1993.

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Variety - 5/10 by Dennis Harvey[A] straightforward, engrossing documentary about a well-buried chapter in recent evangelical history.
User Review - 8/10 by Stef LThe delicate balance between ministry and madness-explored in other Top 100 films such as Ordet and The Apostle-takes a real life turn in Frisbee: The Life and Death of a Hippie Preacher, an informative and revealing documentary that explores the life of a struggling evangelist trying to follow and live out God's call. Lonnie Frisbee, seeking euphoria in LSD, was tripping with friends in a California canyon painting pictures of Jesus on the rock walls when he claims he met Jesus and his life was changed forever. Delusional or not, he responded to the vision like a modern day John the Baptist, becoming a fiery-eyed prophet willing to baptize hundreds and minister to thousands off the Pacific coast. Indeed, he became one of the more well-known prophets of the counter-culture Jesus-movement of that time. Two of the fastest growing churches of the last half-century were launched as a result of his anointed and zealous evangelism. Sadly, Frisbee himself isn't a part of their story. Having started the churches with a message for the lost, his own lostness and the moralizing of others wrote him out of church history. Frisbee died of AIDS in 1987. Among the first to die from the epidemic, he continually struggled with homosexuality even as he claimed that it was sin. The documentary is mind-boggling: it combines a "sin-in-the-ministry" perspective with an evangelical mode-a reminder that behind today's groomed and well fed preachers lie roots in prophetic figures like John the Baptist, Isaiah, and Hosea. These were figures who stood against conventional religion, often appearing like lunatics but sacrificing for a cause they saw as greater than themselves. Frisbee didn't hide his sin so much as work alongside it. He didn't want it stopping him from what he felt was the ultimate mission. This is his story-a story almost forgotten, which some seem to wish to forget. Director David Di Sabatino captures this history in narrative form-with great pictures of Lonnie and his early life and the beginnings of the Jesus movement-and in interviews with as many as he could find who were actually a part of the story. Interviews with Chuck Girard, Chuck Smith, Jr., Troy Perry, Mel White, and Connie, Frisbee's wife, punctuate the history by offering tales that are their own. Their perspectives often differ in the details, but a similar thread always prevails: there once was a man of fire and love and compassion, who pleaded with thousands that Jesus was the way.

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