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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780780607187
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 078060718X
Label: New Line Home Video
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Line Home Video
Release Date: September 01, 1998
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 10742
Studio: New Line Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: October 04, 1991
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Once upon a time, in the 1980s and early 1990s, American independent movies did not seek to merely ape Hollywood formulas. They were more than just feature-length resumes for shrewd, enterprising filmmakers who had nothing to say, but dreamed of saying it with a big-studio budget. Back then, independent films provided a different kind of movie experience; they challenged and provoked audiences--and none more so than 1991's The Rapture, written and directed by Michael Tolkin, the man who wrote the screenplay for The Player, Robert Altman's scathing anti-Hollywood comedy. Mimi Rogers plays Sharon, a lost soul who gives up her hedonistic life of sex and drugs when she finds God and becomes a fundamentalist Christian fanatic. Her pilgrim's progress, presented in a deadpan, nonjudgmental style, culminates quite literally in the title event--the Second Coming, the Apocalypse, the end of the world, or whatever you want to call it. Rogers's fearless performance becomes all the more provocative when you recall that the actress is a lifelong member of the Church of Scientology. The Rapture is a mind-boggling, wildly ambitious movie that's open to myriad interpretations. But no matter what you make of it, it's sure to leave you engaged and shaken. --Jim Emerson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - "Who forgives God?"
As previous comments show, this unique film evokes intense responses from its viewers, both positive & negative. And with the increasing presence of fundamentalism on the national & world stage, the questions it poses become ever more pressing & pertinent. Interestingly, both believers & non-believers fall on both the positive & negative sides here!
The basic story is common enough today: Sharon (a superb, risk-taking Mimi Rogers) works at an unfulfilling job & ... Read More
Rating:  - A challenging idea but not particularly well thopught out...
I saw this movie years ago & remembered being intrigued but could not recall the plot details so watched it again when it appeared on the Indie channel. I'm always interested in movies that try to deal with cults in straightforwardly & recalled this one as having some good touches.
The acting is well-done, particularly Mimi Rogers who appears extremely well-cast. But the writing is sketchy at best & most of the critical situations seem more conceptual than real. The early "swinger ... Read More
Rating: - Great commentary track
Surprising and radical -- brave filmmaking. But buy this disc for the commentary track. Director Michael Tolkin, actors David Duchovny and Mimi Rogers are all together in one location discussing the film, while actor Patrick Bauchau's comments are occasionally dubbed in (at a much lower volume). Duchovny, an unknown when he made this film, makes some hilarious comments about a particular nude shot that wound up on the Internet. Rogers comes off as intelligent and thoughtful and you can tell the two actors ... Read More
Rating: - An hallucinatory journey into the nature of belief
If you are able to put aside your religious beliefs (or lack thereof) and watch this extraordinary movie for the unabashed pleasure of the acting and cinematic technique, you will be numbed by the hallucinatory potency of the narrative. Not since Roman Polanski's Repulsion has a film so authoritatively rendered the psychology of extreme belief, and the gradual, progressive nature of the process one undergoes as they either descend into madness or experience epiphany (or both), depending upon the viewer's ... Read More
Rating: - I agree...
Having seen this movie several years ago, I have to say the reviewers on this site have said it all...I have nothing to add since they wrote almost precisely what I would have. I very much recommend this film and applaud the acting of the characters, especially Mimi Rogers.
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