Believer

Name: Believer
Genre: Music, Documentary
Released: June 15, 2018
Duration: 101 min
Cast: Aja Volkman, Ben McKee, Dan Reynolds, Daniel Platzman, Savannah

2018

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Home Box Office (HBO) | Release Date: June 15, 2018 | TV-14

Starring: Aja Volkman, Ben McKee, Dan Reynolds, Daniel Platzman, Savannah, Tyler Glenn, Wayne Sermon

Summary: Believer follows Mormon Dan Reynolds, frontman for the Grammy Award-winning band Imagine Dragons, as he takes on a new mission to explore how the Mormon Church treats its LGBTQ members. With the rising suicide rate amongst teens in the state of Utah, his concern with the church’s policies sends him on an unexpected path of acceptance and change.

Director: Don Argott

Genre(s): Music, Documentary

Rating: TV-14

Runtime: 101 min

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Gary Goldstein

Jun 16, 2018

Throughout, Reynolds approaches the range of people and issues he encounters with warmth, candor and earnest support. Read full review

Daniel Fienberg

Jun 16, 2018

As a movie it's OK, with very little worth raving about. As a story and message, though, it feels important and worth getting out there in as swift and mainstream a way as possible. Better to inspire some institutional change and maybe save a few lives than to be hailed as art. Read full review

Matt Prigge

Jun 16, 2018

A better doc would have used its superstar lead as a linchpin, structuring it so that he’s absorbed into the cause, gradually upstaged by those directly affected by sanctioned bigotry. Instead, director Don Argott (of the more dynamic music docs Rock School and Last Days Here) fills the running time with borderline Akerman-esque mundanity. Read full review

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machado1994

Sep 13, 2018

The documentary fulfills its role in showing Mormon doctrine and its impact on the LGBTQ community of Utah. The rate of suicide in the state is higher than the national average and shows the impact that faith and personal life brought on the lives of young people who took their own lives. InThe documentary fulfills its role in showing Mormon doctrine and its impact on the LGBTQ community of Utah. The rate of suicide in the state is higher than the national average and shows the impact that faith and personal life brought on the lives of young people who took their own lives. In addition to showing members who were excommunicated for expressing their support or for saying they were gay.
The idea of Dan Reynolds to show all this reality is to applaud. Although hetero and father of family, he embraced the cause. Let us fight for our lives.… Expand

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