Redeeming Love (GAM340)

### Starring:

Abigail Cowen, Tom Lewis, Nina Dobrev, Logan Marshall-Green, Eric Dane, Famke Janssen

### Production Company:

Nthibah Pictures,Pinnacle Peak Pictures,Mission Pictures International

## Hosts

Noah Lugeons

Eli Bosnick

### Special Guest

Cara Santa Maria

***Redeeming Love*** is the story of no love and no redemption—it's just garbage, and a massive trigger warning for anybody who has ever dealt with abuse.

### **Opening Phrase**

Where each week we watch another selection from Christian cinema, because free will is an illusion.

### **How Bad Was It?**

Well, if you love the refractory period after watching porn you feel guilty about, but you wish it lasted two hours and fourteen minutes, you will *love* this movie.

### **Best Worst**

* Cara: …retraumatization. [This is not a psychologically healthy movie to watch]
* Noah: …redemption. [For being the the victim of kidnapping, rape, and sexual slavery.]
* Eli: …way to ruin my friendship with Cara. [Eli only watched the trailer before telling Cara to watch it.]

### **Notes**

* Check out Cara on her website, Twitter, *Talk Nerdy*, *The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe*, *Fixed That for You*, and (thanks to Eli) iLoveSkinBooks.com. PiaT owes Cara a lot more than the twenty dollars and two hours she spent on this movie.
* The film is based on the 1991 novel of the same name by Francine Rivers, which was in turn inspired by the biblical Book of Hosea, which goes a long way towards explaining why the book and the film are so terrible. The book received gold and platinum awards from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association for selling 500K (2005) and 1M (2009) copies; apparently, evangelicals are really that desperate for titillation, and it's okay as long as there's plenty of suffering and a "Jesus saves" at the end.
* My mother-in-law suggested this yesterday (6 July 2022) as one of three movies we should watch while she's visiting.

### **Jokes**

* [Noah: And we watch her fall into disrepute on the boat. Like, we've already watched her become a prostitute—we have to watch it again?] [Eli: Again.] [Cara: Yeah.] [Eli: This—there will never be a—nothing she ever does doesn't turn into prostitution. She like, finds a nickel on the ground, she bends over to pick it up, and it's on a string and she gets dragged into a brothel again. "Aw, dang it!" By the end of the movie she like, trips and falls, lands in a feather bed. "Aw, man! What's a— seventh time. that's on me."] [Noah: Yeah.]

### **Interstitials**

* Cara Discussion the Screenplay at Famous People Lunch (7:52)
* *Trauma Porn* (40:14)
* Why is Eli Doing Costume Changes? (1:14:59)
* Outtakes (1:48:34) [Post Credits]

### **Tropes**

* Disappointing Christian Celebrity
* This is YOUR Movie!
* Reprehensible Moral Message

### **Breakfast Club Close**

* Cara: Turns out Michael is a really shitty drunk. Don't worry, you'll see him in all his abusive glory in *Redeeming Love 2: First of the Redeemer*.
* Noah: Paul went on to at least get his nuts stomped flat by a bull or something. C'mon.
* Eli: Eli tried to start a "Hang Brett Kavanaugh *chant at a bunch of Young Republican events, but all he got was kicked out. Didn't work.*

### **Links**

* Episode on Audioboom
* Episode on YouTube
* Episode on Patreon
* Trailer on YouTube
* IMDb

### **Ad Reads**

* Mint Mobile: Eli Borrows Cara's Cellphone (1:50:33)
* Trubill: Reviewing Eli's List of Crimes (1:52:27)
* Fresh: Cara Gives Eli "Famous People Crackers" (1:53:58)