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Jesus' Son is a 1999 drama film based on the collection of short stories by Denis Johnson. The film stars Billy Crudup and Samantha Morton , with Holly Hunter , Dennis Hopper , Denis Leary , Will Patton , John Ventimiglia , Michael Shannon , and Jack Black in supporting roles.
He adds that Jesus' Son is "the book with which Johnson is most often identified." [19] [20] The anonymous narrator of these stories, delivered from a first-person confessional point-of-view, has endeared Johnson to his readership. Critic J. Robert Lennon wrote: The work we all loved best was Jesus' Son. Unassuming in presentation and readable ...
It is said that Jesus does away with two vices, pride and avarice with this one command to freely give, since whatever they received is a gift of God, without any merit of their own, and so pride has no place. And second against avarice, because everything received must be freely given away. [2]
As a friend, Judas convinces Jesus to give his disciples his miraculous powers, and he does with good results. Finally, the Jewish leaders spy on Judas and convince him of the greater good of betraying Jesus, in order to save the Jewish people. Judas gets caught between the corrupt leaders – Caiaphas and Pontius Pilate – and Jesus.
Non-Catholic media outlets tended to receive the film more favorably. Christopher D. Cunningham of Meridian Magazine, a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints publication, "[Y]ou can feel the care and craft that have gone into [the film]. . . . This doesn’t feel like there was a tinkering team of religious advisors sanding down every ...
Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. is a 2022 American mockumentary comedy film written, directed, and produced by Adamma Ebo, in her feature directorial debut, and is a feature-length adaptation of Ebo's 2018 short film of the same name.
The Nativity Story is a 2006 American biblical drama film based on the nativity of Jesus and directed by Catherine Hardwicke.The film stars Keisha Castle-Hughes, Oscar Isaac, Hiam Abbass, Shaun Toub, Alexander Siddig, Ciarán Hinds, and Shohreh Aghdashloo.
The Gospel of John is a 2003 epic biblical drama film that recounts the life of Jesus according to the Gospel of John. [3] The film is a word-for-word adaptation of the American Bible Society's Good News Bible and follows the Gospel of John precisely, without additions to the story from the other Gospels or omissions of the Gospel's complex passages.