Wise Blood

(1979)

★ 6.4 IMDb · 113 votes

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Year: 1979

Runtime: 106 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Джон Хьюстон

Cast: Брэд Дуриф, Дэн Шор, Amy Wright, Гарри Дин Стэнтон, Mary Nell Santacroce, Нед Битти, Джон Хьюстон, William Hickey, J.L. Parker, Marvin Sapp

Plot

A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.

US Army war veteran Hazel Motes may not be a believing Christian, somehow observations like the state of a run-down country church, meeting the ridiculous frauds on the streets and memories inspire him to take up, after initially fierce refusal, the part of a traveling preacher when a cab driver insists he looks like one in his new hat. He starts his own new Church of Truth, without the crucified Jesus, his first disciple being an 18-year old simpleton with a 'prophetic gift'...