Title: The Apostle |
Release Date: 1998 |
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Running time: about 150 Minutes |
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Distributor and Production Company: October Films |
Director; Writer: |
Producer: Robert Duvall |
Cast: Robert Duvall |
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Review: Movie Review of The Apostle (1997); October Films;R; 150 Minutes; Perhaps this film could have been titled “The Fundamentalist.” The opening scenes of rural This emotional film about the life of a fundamentalist preacher, played by Robert Duvall, was intriguing to me because Duvall spent 13 years and $5 million of his own money on it. In a way, this was movie "self-publishing" (or at least, "cooperative publishing"). But I wonder about Duvall's point. A preacher who murders his rival to keep himself in clerical power has no moral credibility (in my libertarian world) at all. I enjoyed seeming him get his just desserts.. Otherwise, this film has that independent look, with simple scenes like an old car crashing into a stream. Another reader offers these comments (from 2/2002): “I read your review on Robert Duvall's The
Apostle. I thought it was a story portraying a preacher struggling
between morality and secularism (morality prevailing). Don't forget,
preachers are human beings too. |
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