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  • 2007
  • PG
  • Gravitas Ventures
  • 1 h 31 m
  • 2007
  • PG
  • Gravitas Ventures
  • 1 h 31 m

Summary From producer Morgan Spurlock ("Super Size Me") and director Rob VanAlkemade comes a serious docu-comedy about the commercialization of Christmas. Bill Talen was a lost idealist who hitchhiked to New York City only to find that Times Square was becoming a mall. Spurred on by the loss of his neighborhood and inspired by the sidewalk prea...

Directed By: Rob VanAlkemade

Written By: Sangeeta Samsera Sharma, Rob VanAlkemade

  • 2007
  • PG
  • Gravitas Ventures
  • 1 h 31 m
  • 2007
  • PG
  • Gravitas Ventures
  • 1 h 31 m

What Would Jesus Buy?

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Summary From producer Morgan Spurlock ("Super Size Me") and director Rob VanAlkemade comes a serious docu-comedy about the commercialization of Christmas. Bill Talen was a lost idealist who hitchhiked to New York City only to find that Times Square was becoming a mall. Spurred on by the loss of his neighborhood and inspired by the sidewalk prea...

Directed By: Rob VanAlkemade

Written By: Sangeeta Samsera Sharma, Rob VanAlkemade

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Mixed or Average Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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69% Positive
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6% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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69% Positive
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6% Negative
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83
The stripped-down filmmaking preserves the abruptness and surprise of the happy (and unhappy) accidents Reverend Billy finds at every stop along the way, from Manhattan to Anaheim.
By Michael Sragow FULL REVIEW
75
It’s a wickedly effective indictment of America’s consumer compulsion, our mindless shopping and the multinational corporations controlling it all.
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75
Steeped in what may be the ultimate postmodern irony: Talen's impromptu, defiant piece of performance art with political undertones has actually taken on a spiritual dimension.
By Maitland McDonagh FULL REVIEW
70
Much like Spurlock's hit "Super Size Me," this production is slick, well-paced, and tremendously entertaining.
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63
Fairly entertaining, repetitive exhortations of a televangelist who looks like Kurt Russell playing Elvis Presley with 12 additional teeth.
By Lawrence Toppman FULL REVIEW
50
You know that deflated feeling you get after you've spent a lot of time and money shopping - and have little to show for your efforts? This disappointing biography, about performance artist Reverend Billy, does an awfully good job recreating it.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
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It's neither conceptually bold nor slyly satirical when Billy dresses up as a Southern evangelical and sings made-up hymns about "the shopacalypse."
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Palisades Pictures, Warrior Poets, Werner Film
Release Date Nov 16, 2007
Duration 1 h 31 m
Rating PG
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Tagline The movie Santa doesn't want you to see!
Website http://www.wwjbmovie.com/
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