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- 2000
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 47 m
- 2000
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 47 m
Summary Stumbling across America in the 1970's, a young junkie (Crudup) searches for meaning in everything from sex and drugs to meetings with strangers.
Directed By: Alison Maclean
Written By: Denis Johnson, Elizabeth Cuthrell, David Urrutia, Oren Moverman
- 2000
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 47 m
- 2000
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 47 m
Jesus' Son
76
6.2
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Summary Stumbling across America in the 1970's, a young junkie (Crudup) searches for meaning in everything from sex and drugs to meetings with strangers.
Directed By: Alison Maclean
Written By: Denis Johnson, Elizabeth Cuthrell, David Urrutia, Oren Moverman
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 30 Critic Reviews
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90% Positive
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10% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 30 Critic Reviews
76
90% Positive
27 Reviews
27 Reviews
10% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
The latter element joins with Crudup's excellent acting to make this deliberately scruffy tale a worthwhile experience if you can handle its explicitly sordid subplots.
Floats before your eyes like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. The surprise is that, fitted together, these pieces make a completed picture.
If the result doesn't make dazzling watching, it nonetheless has the power to haunt.
It's best to see this as a drug buffet. Graze through the vignettes... and you'll find three or four tasty bits to snack on.
A dashing fusion of the literary and the cinematic.
Movies about junkies are often brutal to watch, but Jesus' Son has such a light touch, you have little to fear. Little to gain, too.
Does it make it as a movie? Only in fits and starts.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 User Ratings
6.2
62% Positive
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 User Ratings
6.2
62% Positive
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
23% Mixed
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15% Negative
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