Product: Jesus' Son [VHS]
Rating: 4.0
Funny, dark, and most of all, darn good entertainment.
As is the case with most of the films I watch, I saw this movie on IFC one day in 2003. I have to say, it was one of the most compelling films I've saw that year. The basic premise deals with a young man who's trying to keep his life in order while attempting to say goodbye to heroine and other notable drugs. His one huge problem is that everything in his life before drug rehab revolves around the narcotics he's so earnestly trying to flee from. The result is a journey - spiritual and psychological - where the young man begins to see life for what it really is: simple beauty, and finds himself taking pleasure in listening to a woman singing each day as he walks from work and the insane patients he works with.Fluent all throughout this film, characters that we encounter are there for a reason and in some ways, each newfound character is like another individual in our anti-heroe's own personal odyssey.Jack Black, Denis Leary, Dennis Hopper, Holly Hunter and Will Patton(Mothman Prophecies, Armageddon) also make notable apperances.One of my top ten indy films, Jesus' Son lacks the sacrilegious tones that many might envision it possesses. A worthwhile film for fans of story-based screen plays.