Jesus' Son

Name: Jesus' Son
Genre: Drama
Released: June 16, 2000
Duration: 107 min
Rating: 76
Cast: Billy Crudup

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Lions Gate Films | Release Date: June 16, 2000 | R

Starring: Billy Crudup

Summary: Stumbling across America in the 1970's, a young junkie (Crudup) searches for meaning in everything from sex and drugs to meetings with strangers.

Director: Alison Maclean

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 107 min

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David Sterritt

The latter element joins with Crudup's excellent acting to make this deliberately scruffy tale a worthwhile experience if you can handle its explicitly sordid subplots. Read full review

Peter Travers

A mesmerizing film spinning from hilarity to heartbreak.

John Petrakis

A story of faith and redemption, as viewed through the blurry and bloodshot eyes of a young man. Read full review

A. O. Scott

One of the pleasures of Jesus' Son is watching a filmmaker take risks and discover new resources of style. Read full review

Marjorie Baumgarten

The movie will not be for all tastes. Its seedy lifestyles, nonjudgmental attitudes, nonlinear narrative, and central character whose problem is his lack of emotions is definitely nonstandard fare. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

But for all the divine touches, FH is no Jesus, or even his son: He's just another wide-eyed American Adam on the road again, a dazed and confused Huck Finn of the highways. Read full review

Michael Atkinson

Though Maclean uses every trick available to make up for the missing inner voice, we never get into Crudup's mellow loser like we should. Maclean's got an incisive eye, but it's poised on the outside of the terrarium looking in. Read full review

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MyronB.

May 10, 2006

Highly entertaining and genuinely funny, until the flash-bang sugary ending that eradicates everything before it.

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