Nicely done film on growing up in a christian fundamentalist community. Many of the ordinary wants and needs are strenuously suppressed and replaced with ritual words and stagings. But the human spirit...which includes intelligence...is hard to squash and keeps poking through this overlay of idiotic dogma.
We follow a group of teens who are all sympathetic and likable...even the girl who is struggling hardest to hold on to childhood beliefs. The film's biggest fault is that it soft-peddles the struggle this breaking free involves in real life...particularly the meanness of the true believers...which gave the film the sense of an after-school special.
Still, this was carefully done and easily held my interest.
5
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