Wise Blood
– A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He..
A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.
17 Feb 1980
English
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John Huston
Flannery O'Connor (novel), Benedict Fitzgerald (screenplay), Michael Fitzgerald (screenplay)
Brad Dourif, John Huston, Dan Shor, Harry Dean Stanton
US Army war veteran Hazel Motes may not be a believing Christian, somehow observations like the state of a run-down country church, meeting the ridiculous frauds on the streets and memories inspire him to take up, after initially fierce refusal, the part of a traveling preacher when a cab driver insists he looks like one in his new hat. He starts his own new Church of Truth, without the crucified Jesus, his first disciple being an 18-year old simpleton with a 'prophetic gift'...
5 nominations.
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