A lot of faith films pass through Salt Lake theaters every year, including Mormon-centric movies that dont travel much farther afield than this immediate region. Most of these pictures are mediocre at best. But every now and again, a good one emerges.
The recent LDS films The Saratov Approach, Freetown and 17 Miracles are all quite good and deserved to be seen by a wider audience than any of them reached during their respective theatrical runs.
Another fine film, The Cokeville Miracle, could be slotted into this category too, except that its only a Mormon movie if you recognize certain references or know the background of the true story, as it offers no specific nod to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Once I Was a Beehive, an LDS movie in local theaters right now, turned out to be a pleasant surprise. The trailer was awful, setting expectations for something akin to Church Ball or The Home Teachers. But instead, Once I Was a Beehive is a charming little comedy with dramatic underpinnings, wisely told from the point of view of someone who is unfamiliar with the cultures quirks.
These and other so-called Mormon movies are a sub-genre of the larger, growing classification of faith/Christian films, which gives us several new titles each year, some distributed nationally and occasionally with familiar actors in the cast.
Faith films are generally low-to-moderate-budget efforts produced outside the Hollywood machine. (For the purposes of this discussion, we wont even consider those wrongheaded major-studio epics such as Noah and Exodus: Gods and Kings.)
Well-intentioned and sincere, many faith films falter because they are heavy-handed, amateurish in places and contain plot elements that are real groaners. I would put God Is Not Dead in that category, especially for its deathbed-repentance climax. Little Boy, which some might argue is only peripherally a faith film, was another disappointment with weird intersecting plots that feel overly contrived. And especially Faith of Our Fathers, a film with a nice idea at its core but laced with frequent cringe-worthy attempts at humor. (Is anything worse than comedy that isnt funny?)
Better are the pointedly evangelical Do You Believe?, which plays like a single-themed anthology with several overlapping stories; the true story from a best-selling memoir, Heaven Is for Real, despite
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