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Two very different men are brought together and learn a mutually important lesson about the real function of a church in this drama. Ethan Jenkins (Michael W. Smith) is a man in his mid-thirties who after years of scuffling as a musician on the West Coast has decided to move back East and work with his father. As it happens, his father is Jeremiah Jenkins (J. Don Ferguson), a well known and respected minister who leads the flock at "The Rock," a massive "superchurch" where worship often looks
PG-13, 1 hr. 42 min.
Feb 17, 2006 Wide
Jul 18, 2006
$0.4M
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
All Critics (15) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (7) | Rotten (10) | DVD (2)
As divided as the two very different churches at its center, The Second Chance reps an uneasy marriage of spiritual conviction and dramatic expedience.
[The film is] designed to launch Christian pop singer Michael W. Smith as a movie brand name. It doesn't really succeed at that, but it does manage to send a positive message in a pretty polished movie, a message aimed at regular church-goers.
[The film is] sabotaged by hackneyed dialogue, sluggish pacing and a listless performance by Smith, who only springs to life when he's singing.
A movie-of-the-week treatment of race and class, the film credibly portrays the day-to-day workings of an urban ministry.
It's not the message that bothered me but the obvious way in which it's delivered.
Second Chance delivers its parable of spiritual growth with enough tender nuance that it doesn't merely preach to the choir.
A modern morality play whose positive messages are undercut by its pandering, paternalistic tone.
A modern morality play whose positive messages are undercut by its pandering, paternalistic tone.
This may be a church movie, but it's one of the better ones.
There are a lot of good messages in The Second Chance about how Christianity is a mix of love, both gentle and tough.
It is earnest, cliched, often awkward and unlikely to inspire anyone who isn't already thoroughly sold on its message of salvation through community activism.
... a sincerely (if not exactly subtly) performed spiritual drama with a faith-based lesson in humility and the practical charity of offering a helping hand.
I love the arogance of the pastors, the leasson they learned: "love your enemy." The humility when they washed one another's feet. That part brought me to tears. I love how the white pastor was clueless and ignorant, caught up in his own little world, and the black pastor who cared deeply for the drug dealers and
May 13, 2008Super Reviewer
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