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- 2005
- Shadow Distribution
- 1 h 22 m
- 2005
- Shadow Distribution
- 1 h 22 m
Summary 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)
Directed By: Andrew Douglas
Written By: Steve Haisman
- 2005
- Shadow Distribution
- 1 h 22 m
- 2005
- Shadow Distribution
- 1 h 22 m
Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus
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Summary 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)
Directed By: Andrew Douglas
Written By: Steve Haisman
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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36% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
50% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
14% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
58
36% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
50% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
14% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
A travelogue unlike any other.
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.
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.
Occasionally, this richly lyrical movie passes over the line separating sympathetic exploration from freak-show condescension.
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.
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.
Tiresome, trite and choked with every lousy Dixie-fried stereotype imaginable.
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Production Company
Andrew Douglas Company,
Lone Star Productions
Release Date Jul 13, 2005
Duration 1 h 22 m
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Awards
Seattle International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Jeonju Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Tribeca Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
