The Grace Card
2010 PG-13 102 minutes
“After his son’s death, embittered police officer Mac McDonald loses faith in God and himself, but his new partner, part-time pastor Sam Wright, offers him friendship and sets him on the path to grace and redemption in this stirring Christian drama.”
This is a beautiful!!!! movie. And it was made by a single church in Memphis!! I had no clue from watching it that it was an indie. Really good production quality, not a false note in the performances. The “making of” featurette is as inspiring as the movie. There was so much support for the project, not just in the church, but from the city of Memphis. The cops did an amazing amount. And the message of racial healing is IMMENSE.
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Thank you, I am always looking for movies with a message that I can watch with my teenager! See why I come here!!!
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Good to know. I’ll make more of an effort to speak up when I find a good one.
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Thanks for bringing this to our attention!
“And it was made by a single church in Memphis!! I had no clue from watching it that it was an indie.” Reminds me of Fireproof (2008) Website iMDB — I’d like to watch it again, but it was painfully powerful and impressively portrayed.
The ubiquity of videotech and Internet spells the end of Television as we knew it. I haven’t had a TV, no tuner, no antenna, cable, or dish, in years. The creativity available online is astonishing and bountiful. In similar fashion, the dominance of theaters by Hollywood is being eroded by the independent producers. Movies aren’t really dead. They’re just morphing.
There’s a significantly different spirit behind some of these new indies. In the iMDB trivia for Fireproof: “Kirk Cameron, a Christian evangelist, refuses to kiss any woman other than his wife. …filmmakers had to dress Cameron’s real-life wife… as the wife character… and shoot the kissing scene in shadow.” Notably, it says, “distributor Samuel Goldwyn’s highest grossing movie-to-date.” And in this article about the making of Fireproof: “During my time on set in November 2007, I had the opportunity to get to know some of the cast and crew and experience their passion for making films that glorify God. Below, they tell their own stories. Their love for Christ was contagious on set.”
I’m sure I read something very similar about the making of [insert latest big Hollywood movie].
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I turned off t.v. in 1979 and never regretted it. The only time I paid for it was the month I was in isolation at an out-of-state hospital. I intended to not, took lots to do, but the loneliness was oppressive, esp with my family so far away and my youngest only 6 months old!
Video rental came to our area when the girls were in elementary school which I thought was a wonderful parenting choice. I never have been sure whether the pacifier or the pause button was the more potent parenting tool. 😉 And it’s so much less demanding to pause a recording to explain something or do some disciplining than it is to stop a streaming t.v. show.
One time, I really had had it with the girls and told them if they didn’t settle down, I’d return Titanic without finishing it. They didn’t. I did. My threats got a lot more attention after that LOL.
Now, our entertainment budget goes to Netflix and a very rare purchase of a DVD for our little collection of “watchable over and over.” Netflix has such a huge selection of all genres and it keeps track of my ratings, makes suggestions of stuff I might like to see. I especially appreciate the customer reviews. I like to surf through and find someone who sounds like me and gives a thoughtful review.
And I keep a list of favorites I don’t want to spend money or shelf space on. (Our DVD shelf unit is full, so buying a new one means giving an old one away.) When I can’t find anything new to order, I look at my list and choose an old fave I haven’t seen in a while.
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