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Wise Blood

1979Movie1 h 46 minPG

ComedyDrama
77
GreatGoodWatch score
IMDb6.9Letterboxd3.5/5Metacritic847.0Rotten Tomatoes89%74%
77
GreatGoodWatch score
IMDb6.9Letterboxd3.5/5Metacritic847.0Rotten Tomatoes89%74%

Summary

A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.

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  • Adults
  • Solo watch

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Religious for BenefitsRare · in 8 titlesGets an ironic reversal. Hazel Motes renounces God but can't give up preaching, so he starts expounding his own anti-religion on street corners, calling it "the Church Without Christ".Rage Against the Heavensin 280 titlesThe modus operandi of Hazel's Church Without Christ.All 23 tropes

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