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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781588178060
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1588178064
Label: Lions Gate
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 22, 2003
Running Time: 107 minutes
Sales Rank: 14363
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
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Fans of the short stories in Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son will wonder how anyone could film a book so beautifully, radiantly, defiantly strange. The good news is that Alison Maclean's film version is more than just faithful to the book's spirit: It's the closest thing to a visual equivalent of Johnson's visionary prose. As a series of vignettes in the life of an unnamed Midwestern junkie-slash-holy fool, the stories are linked more through imagery than through anything so linear as a plot. Maclean preserves this episodic structure but adds just enough narrative glue to make the whole thing hang together as a film. (And wisely so; if she hadn't, there'd have been no role at all for Samantha Morton, brilliant here as Michelle, the narrator's girlfriend.) With a hero called Fuckhead, you know this isn't going to be entertainment for the whole family, and some of the scenes of drug use and associated gore are grim indeed. But the movie looks just right, and some of its images are so beautiful it hurts: old movies playing in an empty drive-in, snow swirling all around; a naked woman parasailing through the sky with her long red hair streaming behind.
Maclean also coaxes wonderful performances from a dream-indie cast, including Morton, the magnetic Billy Crudup as Fuckhead, Dennis Hopper, Holly Hunter, an uncharacteristically understated Denis Leary, and even, in a gruesome cameo, Denis Johnson himself. (Hint: Look for the knife. Then look away quickly.) Once again, Jack Black hijacks every frame in which he appears, and his turn as a pill-popping orderly gives new meaning to the phrase "I save lives." Things drag a little during the last half-hour, but squirm not: Following Fuckhead through rehab and beyond, the book's closing scenes are genuinely redemptive without hitting the audience over the head with a "lesson" of any kind. Jesus' Son is Maclean's first feature film since 1992's Crush; let's hope she won't make us wait as long before the next fix. --Mary Park
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"All these . . . weirdos, and me . . . getting a little better every day right in the middle of 'em. I had never known . . . I had never even imagined for a heartbeat that . . . there might be a place in the world for people like us." --"FH"
Titled after Lou Reed's song, "Heroin," there is a reason Jesus' Son was considered one of the top ten films of 1999 by The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and Roger Ebert. Adapted from a Denis Johnson's visionary collection of short stories ... Read More
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This movie has a number of things going against it, principally its utter lack of anything resembling a plot... although given its source material (11 disjointed short stories), this is hardly surprising.
So why is it so eminently watchable? Billy Crudup may be easy on the eyes, but good looks alone don't explain how he brilliantly exposes the gentle, goofy heart of his character... there are no inner demons here, just the fundamental personality flaw of a man so erratic, even his junky ... Read More
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A great film. Funny, smart, and heartbreaking at times. The story is basically the life of a junkie, but it that reveals that in every person, in every human life there can be moments, either sad or happy, of true beauty. If you really like it, try reading the book. It's beautifully written, and some of the lines you'll recognize in the movie. By the way, Billy Crudup is an awesome actor.
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Jesus' Son (Alison MacLean, 1999)
I don't like Billy Crudup. I've never been overly fond of Samantha Morton. And I have yet to see a Jack Black movie that didn't make me want to claw my eyes out. So what on Earth possessed me to think that there would be any chance at all that I'd like Alison MacLean's Jesus' Son, which features all three of them, along with a host of cameos (most of which, actually, are from actors well worth watching)? I'm not sure, but I should have known better.
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reworking a book of disjointed short stories that's core is in the mental narrative into a film is quite a task (and that's quite a run-on sentence (more run-ons to come)). They make a decent film, but lose entirely the meaning within the pages of the book. Well not even just lose, they completely change it from a gorgeous poetically profound look at a lost soul, into a pseudo-surrealist dark comedy about a lost soul. Still not a bad film, but if you read the book first (I actually sought it out after ... Read More
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