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Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus
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Mixed or average reviews
Based on 14 critic reviews
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Based on 6 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Documentary
Written by: Steve Haisman
Directed by: Andrew Douglas
Release Date:
Theatrical: July 13, 2005
DVD: March 14, 2006
Running Time: 84 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Jim White
A thought-provoking road trip through the American South, this film is a collage of stories and testimonies, almost invariably of sudden death, sin or redemption: Heaven or Hell, with no middle ground. (Films Transit International)
Also On Metacritic
FILM: The Amityville Horror
MUSIC: Jim White: Drill A Hole In That Substrate And Tell Me What You See
Also On The Web: Internet Movie Database View The Trailer Official Studio Site
What The Critics Said
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San Francisco Chronicle G. Allen Johnson
A beautifully shot and edited film that treats its subjects fairly.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
Made for the BBC, this travelogue of America's southern backwoods is both blessed and cursed by its fascination with the colorful--lively alt-country sounds and fancy word spinners like novelist Harry Crews.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
A movie about identity that can't quite pinpoint its own, Andrew Douglas' road-trip documentary about the Deep South does eventually meander toward audience enlightenment.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck
Ultimately fails to illuminate its subject, though it does offer some evocative moments and terrific music along the way.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
Occasionally, this richly lyrical movie passes over the line separating sympathetic exploration from freak-show condescension.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Ken Fox
White's take on southern life is no more "real" than the stereotypes he's trying to disrupt, just cooler.
Read Full Review >Variety Leslie Felperin
Ultimately, pic feels very much like a romanticized, outsider's view of the South that willfully seeks out the culture's strangest, most weirdo aspects for other outsiders' gleeful delectation.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Joshua Land
Florida-born folksinger Jim White serves as guide on this musical tour of the rural South, conceptualized less as a state of mind than as an atmosphere.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Scott Foundas
Far too often, Douglas indulges his preference for the superficial over the substantive: The plentiful performance footage -- shot in overproduced, music-video fashion -- overwhelms the film, as do White’s purplish, faux-poetic musings.
Read Full Review >New York Post Kyle Smith
By the time White gets around to condescending remarks... the film has become a sort of BBC "Hee Haw," meant to reassure Brits and New Yorkers that the South is indeed a land of pistol-toting, Jesus-praising gap-toothed freaks.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Phil Hall
Tiresome, trite and choked with every lousy Dixie-fried stereotype imaginable.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.3 (out of 10) based on 6 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Paul F. gave it an8:
Take your video camera to every charismatic small town church in the south, throw in some great country gospel music and some assorted tales from prison, bars, and eccentric yokels and you have Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus. I thought this film might bash such a culture but it actually embraced it without absolutely agreeing to its a hell fire and brimestone tenet. I found the narrator to be quite spiritual in more of an open accepting type of way. Though many of the people in this film were quite certain what was what the narrator ceased to judge and loved the spirit of humanity for what it was.
Chris S. gave it a10:
This is a depiction of the South that eloquently illustrates it's uniqueness and beauty. With beautiful photography, haunting, stylized musical performances and candid interviews in backwoods bars, prisons and churches, the filmmakers capture the south of hardcore religion and mystical music, leaving aside the sterotypes of ignorance and bigotry.
Peter M gave it a0:
Appalling, like religion itself generally is though.
