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This literary thriller revolves around Parker Sloane. When he returns from a dismal foray into third-world cash-smuggling to his childhood home in the woods of New England, it seems he’s seeing his country and his blended stepfamily for the first time—and finding both just as twitchy, desperate, paranoid and unpredictable as the underworld types he thought he’d escaped.

Before he can even unpack, Parker goes head-to-head with his relatives—his tyrannical stepfather, seething younger brother, newly evangelical mother, and his alluring younger half-sister Rita—and with the demons they never exorcised.

Delicately but disastrously, Parker attempts to keep his family from imploding, unaware that they have their own plans for escape. The Moon in Deep Winter combines the dark comedy of the Coen brothers with the doomed lyricism of Denis Johnson, creating an airtight world of homicidal family dysfunction.
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« on: April 16, 2010, 09:23:43 PM »

I don't know if it is OK to post this here but I am watching an inspirational movie that I rented on Redbox called "Facing the Giants" and thought others here may like it. It is about a high school football coach who is losing hope in his life due to a LOT of hardknocks... He gets inspired by an answer to his prayer and his team is better for it. Not the best actors and even kind of slow for a tv movie but I have cried about five times already... so it is doing its job. Wink It is definitely what I needed this Friday night. Smiley
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« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2010, 07:13:03 AM »

I thought it was really well done.  The acting seemed to me to be a little more "stage-y" than "movie-y" at some points, but overall I thought it was an amazing movie for the budget and staff that they had.  I thought the cinematography was brilliant.  If you like it you should check out "Flywheel," which was their first movie, and their latest one, "Fireproof."
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« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2010, 10:23:59 AM »

The acting's not all that bad, to me, considering that no one in the movie is a trained actor.  They are all just members of a church. 

The only actor even in Fireproof is Kirk Cameron. 
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« Reply #3 on: May 26, 2010, 01:22:56 PM »

That is a great movie. Facing the Giants... it rocks. The same crew also did a another great movie called Flywheel. Of course, there's less action in that one.
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« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2010, 05:19:39 AM »

That is a great movie!  I love the scene where the coach motivates the player to carry his teammate a little further until... I won't spoil it.  Truly inspirational!
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« Reply #5 on: May 31, 2010, 05:54:26 AM »

Yes. I heard others make fun of this awesome movie just because the acting was not as polished as high budget Hollywood acting. But so what. It's a super story.
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« Reply #6 on: May 31, 2010, 10:40:01 AM »

That is a great movie!  I love the scene where the coach motivates the player to carry his teammate a little further until... I won't spoil it.  Truly inspirational!

I know, that's my favorite scene!  I cry every time.
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« Reply #7 on: May 31, 2010, 12:39:03 PM »

I love this movie.  We have watched it as a family and I have even shown it to my PE classes.  They all loved it.
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« Reply #8 on: August 12, 2010, 10:08:37 AM »

Sherwood Baptist Church produced "Facing the Giants", and they did a wonderful job with volunteer staffing. Almost all the actors were volunteers as well. They get better and better with each release.

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« Reply #9 on: August 25, 2010, 07:21:54 PM »

I saw this movie a while back when I was going through a difficult time.  It lifted my spirit in such a way that I wrote a letter to the Baptist church where the director and star of the movie preaches along with an inspirational song I wrote.  I did recieve a kind response from his secretary a few months later.  If anyone is looking for some inspiration, I would strongly recommend this film!
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« Reply #10 on: September 03, 2010, 03:53:36 PM »

I didn't realize that the director and star of this awesome movie was a preacher. That's quite interesting.
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« Reply #11 on: September 03, 2010, 05:40:45 PM »

I didn't realize that the director and star of this awesome movie was a preacher. That's quite interesting.
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Yep, he is a preacher in a Baptist church in Georgia (If memory serves me right.)  From what I understand, many of the church members are involved in the productions.
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« Reply #12 on: September 07, 2010, 01:08:25 PM »

This sounds like the perfect movie for my grandson right now. Thanks.
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