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Wise Blood

Cast

Brad Dourif, Dan Shor, Amy Wright, Harry Dean Stanton View All


Crew

John Huston (Director), Benedict Fitzgerald (Screenplay), Michael Fitzgerald (Screenplay) View All

Release: Feb. 17th, 1980
Runtime: 1 hour, 46 minutes
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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dadgumblah
The fact that his father (director John Huston, seen in flashbacks) was a hell fire and brimstone minister and often had a young Hazel up front at his revivals, scaring him till he urinated, might have something to do with Hazel's choice of paths.
Citizen Rules
The young man is angry about religion as his father was a 'fire and brimstone' preacher.


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