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Genres:
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Comedy /
Drama /
Music
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Director:
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John Huston
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Actors:
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Dan Shor,
Amy Wright,
J.L. Parker,
Marvin Sapp,
Brad Dourif,
John Huston,
Harry Dean Stanton,
Ned Beatty,
William Hickey
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Duration:
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106 min.
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Rating:
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(7.3/10)86.5
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Plot Summary:
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US Army engagement Hazel Motes may not be a believing Christian, somehow observations like the aver of a run-down countryside church, convocation the ridiculous frauds on the streets and memories inspire him to take up, after initially fierce disapproval, the hint at of a traveling preacher when a taxi-cub driver insists he looks like sole in his new hat. He starts his own new Church of Truth, without the crucified Jesus, his first disciple being an 18-year antediluvian simpleton with a 'predictive strength'...
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Wise Blood
"Where you crop up b grow from is gone. Where you thought you were goin' to weren't never there. And where you are ain't no good unless you can through to away from it." With lines that, prominent director John Huston, 73 years old when he came to form Discerning Blood, might merely have pointed his camera at Flannery O'Connor's novel and succeed up with a actually compelling film. As it is a furious, fire-eyed, 29-year-fossil Brad Dourif stars as O'Connor's existentialist anti-hero Hazel Motes, a puritanical atheist zealously preaching that the info of Immortal is a lie. It's not just the exhibition of Dourif's career. Aware of Blood's potent gumbo of melodrama, tragedy, grotesquery and satire places it among the most intriguing and overlooked American unpre...
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