Wise Blood
1980
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| New Line Cinema | Release Date: February 17, 1980 |
Starring:
Amy Wright, Brad Dourif, Dan Shor, Harry Dean Stanton, J.L. Parker, John Huston, Marvin Sapp, Mary Nell Santacroce, Ned Beatty, William Hickey
Summary:
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.
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Wise Blood, a virulently comic, grotesquely unforgettable adaptation of Flannery O'Connor's celebrated novel of customized redneck religion and redemption, is as strange and original a movie as Huston has ever made. [17 Mar 1980, p.101]
Like O'Connor's other novel, The Violent Bear It Away, and some of her best short stories, Wise blood has a fierce momentum and a savage wit that stand alone in contemporary literature. The movie makes a good try at capturing these elusive elements. But ultimately it loses its balance, and many viewers may wonder whether its rewards are worth all its perversities. [07 Mar 1980, p.19]
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