Product: Jesus' Son [VHS]
Rating: 2.0
A mess.
Jesus' Son (Alison MacLean, 1999)I don't like Billy Crudup. I've never been overly fond of Samantha Morton. And I have yet to see a Jack Black movie that didn't make me want to claw my eyes out. So what on Earth possessed me to think that there would be any chance at all that I'd like Alison MacLean's Jesus' Son, which features all three of them, along with a host of cameos (most of which, actually, are from actors well worth watching)? I'm not sure, but I should have known better.Crudup plays [censored] (yes, that's the name we know him by the movie), who gets involved with Michelle (Morton), and the story (using the term loosely) follows the two of them through the ups and downs of their relationship. Neither is a very likeable character; in fact, the both of them are rather disgusting throughout. Michelle gets [him] involved with drugs, and, since that's the way it absolutely must happen in Hollywood, [he] gets hooked and immediately begins a life of crime, then the two try to clean up their act when Michelle becomes pregnant, then we finally circle back to the opening scene, where [he] is hitchhiking his way across the country to track down a lead on Michelle... yeah, it's kind of complicated, more so because it's told in impressionist fashion. Minor characters come and go from the script with nary a wave or a nod; we're simply on to the next story. The end, I assume, is supposed to be an ambiguous attempt at redemption, but by the time we've gone through two hours of being around these rather braindead characters, can we trust anyone? More importantly, do we care? **