
An eclectic cast of characters intertwines and collides around themes of faith, religion and race in a small East Texas town. Screen Door Jesus tells the story of the church-going, but not exactly God-fearing, town's folk who wake up one morning to discover the image of Jesus on Old Mother Harper's screen door. With media and crowds gathering around the phenomenon, and Jesus staring everyone straight in the face, it's time for people to take sides.... (Full plot summary below)
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An eclectic cast of characters intertwines and collides around themes of faith, religion and race in a small East Texas town. Screen Door Jesus tells the story of the church-going, but not exactly God-fearing, town's folk who wake up one morning to discover the image of Jesus on Old Mother Harper's screen door. With media and crowds gathering around the phenomenon, and Jesus staring everyone straight in the face, it's time for people to take sides.
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| ReelTalk Movie ReviewsBetty Jo TuckerNew filmmaker Kirk Davis miraculously melds numerous characters and ideas together with entertaining and thought-provoking results. |
| L.A. WeeklyLuke Y. Thompson...it's refreshing to see a film that not only doesn't demonize, but actually distinguishes between different strains of old-time Southern religion. |
| Houston ChronicleJoey GuerraDespite the conflicting statements on faith and religion, revenge and forgiveness, and sex and love, the divergent arguments are ultimately part of the ramshackle grace and peculiar charm of this modest, frequently-satisfying film. |
| VarietyRonnie Scheib[Its] gutsy, madly ambiguous unleashing of a mixed bag of religious reactions attests to a genuine sense of regionalism. |
| User ReviewFrances HIt's one of those movies where you have to pick the person you watch it with very carefully. It is very easy for this one to piss people off. The only real thing I have against it is the fact that I don't think the movie actually knows where it stands on religion. It takes the extreames and shows all of their points of view. The hypocrat is very much alive in this movie. I think it should have possibly picked a side, and stuck with it. It's like they wanted to be so down the middle in the end the kind of missed the point. They should have instead just made people think. The acting is about as good as you would expect from the cheesy premis, but if you can look past that you actually have a pretty decent movie. It's more about how outragous people are with religion that they can't even think for themselves. |
| User ReviewDon RThis is one of those independent films that you either get or you don't. I didn't get it. Maybe if I watched it a few times...but it wasn't that interesting. |
| User ReviewLee MWinner of the Golden Starfish fiction competition at the Hamptons fest, pic's gutsy, madly ambiguous unleashing of a mixed bag of religious reactions attests to a genuine sense of regionalism. |
| User ReviewBrooke MThis movie had some interesting parts, it wasn't by any means a good film, but I laughed pretty heartily at some situations. They were onto something good with this movie, but it was executed poorly. The ending didn't even seem to fit. |