
A gentle and usually mellow young man, who sometimes knows things before they happen and gets vibes of premonition, tell us his story: how he met Michelle in Iowa in 1971, how he got the name Fuckhead, how she introduced him to heroin and their falling in love, his thieving, his hospital work and their time in Chicago when she gets pregnant, detox, going to Phoenix to live, AA meetings and a dance, working at a care center where he learns to touch the residents, and modifying... (Full plot summary below)
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A gentle and usually mellow young man, who sometimes knows things before they happen and gets vibes of premonition, tell us his story: how he met Michelle in Iowa in 1971, how he got the name Fuckhead, how she introduced him to heroin and their falling in love, his thieving, his hospital work and their time in Chicago when she gets pregnant, detox, going to Phoenix to live, AA meetings and a dance, working at a care center where he learns to touch the residents, and modifying his daily schedule so that he passes a neighboring Mennonite household at the right time to hear the wife sing Gospel songs in the shower. Slowly, very slowly, FH lets his gifts emerge.
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| Independent on SundayAntonia QuirkeJack Black has become impossible to ignore. |
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekDespite the occasional miscalculation and disappointing last half-hour, an estimable piece of work. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyThe film uses dreamlike quality to evoke youth subculture of the 1970s, and Billy Crudup is perfectlt cast as a man who believes he possesses healing powers and wants to do good, but his attempts always end disastrously |
| Looking CloserJeffrey OverstreetWhen the film finds a note of bittersweet conclusion, I'm wondering why all these colorful threads remained so loose when they might have woven into an interesting story. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzThis might be the best junkie film ever made. |
| Filmcritic.comJeremiah Kippreveals the underlying humor beneath the lives of the sad, the tattered, the broken and the pathetic. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonManages to blend its stories together into a nearly seamless narrative, sliding dreamily from one episode to the next before we even realize we've gone. |
| TheMovieReport.comMichael DequinaWhile one is able to get interested in FH's internal workings, it's more difficult to get too invested in his external actions--that is, on rare occasion he does act rather than react. |
| filmgazette.comPrairie Miller...between a wasted world of heartland junkies and the dazed, private induced euphoria of one hopeful loser among them. |
| Sin MagazineAustin KennedyJESUS' SON is bottom of the line trash that wants to be art. Full of self important crap, tedious performances, and embarrassing experimental flourishes, this is a movie to avoid at all costs. |