Leap of Faith/Trailer transcripts

After the Paramount Pictures logo, we see a bus reading "Miracles and Wonders" drive into view
:Hal Douglas: Just off the main highway... at a wide spot in the road... is Rustwater, Kansas. Prime pickin's for Jonas Nightengale.
Cut to one of Jonas' shows
:Jonas: Are you ready for a miracle?!
:Hal: Part showman...
:Jonas: I hear Satan knockin', but he can't come in! (Cut to different scenes of Jonas)
:Hal: Part salesman...
:Farmer: We don't need no preacher sellin' us a lot of bunk.
:Jonas: I'm not selling bunk, friend; I'm givin' it away! (Back to his ministry)
:Hal: Messiah of the interstate. (Cut to Jonas inside a diner)
:Woman: Take a whiff at just walked in.
:Marva: Special today is steak, old Reverend; no fish, no ham, no spinach.
:Jonas: Awful lot of "nos" there, Marva.
:Marva: No lip.
:Jonas: She wants me.
:Jane: I think you should stick with your bottom pointers. (Back to Jonas' ministry)
:Jonas: Alright, let's give some empty lives a little meaning! (As he says this, he slides across the floor; then we cut in-between Jonas and Jane)
:Jane: Section two, first row, white shirt, back problem.
:Jonas: (Points at a man in the audience) And you, sir, come on up on stage, and cure your backaches! (Cut outside)
:Will: You don't care what those people need. Their truck broke down, and you're looking to cash in.
:Jonas: I give my people a good show. (Back to the ministry, where Jonas is now wearing a sparkling jacket. He turns around in it as the choir continues to sing.) Plenty of music. (Cut to a drummer at Jonas' show, and more of him in the jacket, then to Will and Marva)
:Marva: All he's doing is selling fairy tales to a bunch of people who thank him for it. (As she says this, we cut back to the audience)
:Jonas: Whoa! Whoa! I feel a healin' comin' on! (Cut to Marva in the audience, then to Jonas and Boyd in a diner playing chess)
:Boyd: My sister thinks you're a fake.
:Jonas: Well, maybe I am and maybe I'm not. (Cut to another shot of his ministry)
:Boyd: If you get the job done, what difference does it make? (Jonas is now seen slapping a man on the head)
:Jonas: Get the strength in your life!
:Boyd: You do believe in miracles, right?
:Jonas: I'd like to hear what your sister has to say on the subject.
:Marva: I believe in life. What it does to you... and what you do back. (Back to the ministry)
:Jonas: Are you ready for the truth?! (Back to the diner) I bet the last time you had a man was when Nixon was in office. (Backstage)
:Jane: Oh, you're so manipulative!
:Jonas: (As the scene changes once again to the show) Manipulators are sneaky; I'm obvious. (He heals a man) Hallelujah, hallelujah! (He falls over, and the crowd screams as they notice a peculiar light on a woman's forehead)
:Audience Member: The sign of the cross! (Cut to a TV)
:Newscaster: A series of alleged miracles have occurred in the town of Rustwater, Kansas. (As she says this, two clips of downtown Rustwater are shown, then we cut to Jonas in bed)
:Jonas: Alleged. You said it, babe. (Cut to a crippled Boyd walking onstage)
:Hal: They say a little faith can work wonders.
:Boyd: Hey Rev, what about me?
:Jonas: (Looks at Boyd for a bit, then turns away from him) I don't think I have any more healin' power left in me tonight!
:Hal: (As Boyd continues to walk onstage and Jane walks on) But once in a while, it just might do the impossible.
:Jane: How are you worried, Jonas, that this time, somebody's actually up there watching? (Jonas looks up, and the speed of the singers' song increases)
:Hal: Paramount Pictures presents, Steve Martin. Debra Winger. (Cut to the film's title) Leap of Faith.
:Jonas: Whoa! Am I in white-boy Heaven or what?!
The billing block is shown, and the music ends
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