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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786303824468
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6303824463
Label: Lions Gate/Live Home Video
Manufacturer: Lions Gate/Live Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate/Live Home Video
Release Date: December 12, 1995
Running Time: 120 minutes
Sales Rank: 52459
Studio: Lions Gate/Live Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1995
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Coming-of-Age through Religion and Sex
This movie is eccentric...so a viewer will either hate it or love it. It is the story of a young teenager who questions the
doctrines of the 7th Day Adventists as well as its puritan sexual mores. He is attracted to a rich, beautiful girl who
responds to him because she sees him as a young rebel who represents everything her father is not. Noah Taylor is a quirky actor but he is a wonderful fit for the part. Overall, I found this film to be one of the most memorable coming of age ... Read More
Rating:  - Buy "The Healer" instead
This is a very tiresome movie. The major characters are mostly caricatures, and the ruminations of the main character (played by Noah Taylor) are neither insightful nor funny. The only sympathetic character is played by Miranda Otto. I wondered why this young woman would be attracted to a self-absorbed bore like Noah Taylor. This happens only in the fantasies of the self-absorbed and boring writers of the script. Another offensive aspect of this movie is its lame satire of Christianity. Again ... Read More
Rating:  - Stays with you
This is one of those movies that stays with you and always reminds me of the universality of the human experience. I saw this movie many years ago and I never forgot it. Every now and then I still think about it. The story of a young man's self discovery and his experiences growing up in the church, leaving the church and losing the love of his life, against the backdrop of the Cuban missile crisis and the end of the world outlook of fundamentalist Christianity. I can relate to this all too well. ... Read More
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