Metacritic Film

Screen Door Jesus

Starring Terry Parks, Buck Taylor, Myk Watford, Cynthia Dorn, Silvia Moore, Julius Tennon, Scarlett McAlister, and Alaina Kalanj

MPAA RATING: R for language and some sexual content

Indican Pictures
Comedy  |  Drama
119 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters September 30, 2005

Set in a small East Texas town, this is a wry, comedic observation of religion, race and the "damnable" struggle between the ideals of faith and the confusing and often contradictory moral issues of everyday life. As entertaining as it is thought provoking, Screen Door Jesus shines a light on religion, exposing the many grey areas. (Indican Pictures)

WRITTEN BY
Kirk Davis
Christopher Cook (stories)

DIRECTED BY
Kirk Davis

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

61 / 100

Critic Reviews

70 Los Angeles Times
A slyly observed slice of Americana.
67 Austin Chronicle
It's a knowing, dare I say sweet, little film that takes pains to let the characters speak for themselves, never rallying behind an implicit religious message, which may be the best message of all.
60 LA Weekly Luke Y. Thompson
The cinematography, by Dan Stoloff (Tumbleweeds, Miracle), is beautiful throughout, but the individual stories occasionally verge toward silliness...Still, there's an affectionate authenticity here that Hollywood baloney like "Crash" can't touch.
60 Variety
Winner of the Golden Starfish fiction competition at the Hamptons fest, pic's gutsy, madly ambiguous unleashing of a mixed bag of religious reactions attests to a genuine sense of regionalism.

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