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Consensus: Evangelical indoctrination is given an unflinching, even-handed look in this utterly worthwhile documentary.
Runtime: 85 mins
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Theatrical Release:Sep 15, 2006 Limited
Box Office: $785,567
Synopsis: A growing number of Evangelical Christians believe there is a revival underway in America whereby Christian youth must take up the leadership of the conservative Christian movement. JESUS CAMP,... [More]
Director: Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady
Filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady lump all evangelicals together, failing to distinguish the more fundamentalist Pentecostals, and they've clumsily inserted some unnecessary editorializing from talk-radio host Mike Papantonio.
I sympathize with the directors' agenda, but this is a movie in which shots of American flags and 'God Bless the U.S.A.' signs are supposed to be as ominous as hammer-and-sickle insignia in a 'duck and cover' propaganda film.
Almost as scary as "Village of the Damned". 12 year olds who aspire to be the next James Dobson!
As a documentary, Jesus Camp could lose its haunted-house score and contrapuntal Air America refrains and still deliver its message...
Filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, who also focused on children in last year's poignant The Boys of Baraka, provide a fascinating glimpse of kids' role in the evangelical movement's political agenda.
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The compassionate god of love so evident in the Sermon on the Mount is nowhere to be found in the documentary JESUS CAMP
...can be draining for those, like myself, who get enough of these people already in our daily lives
Often funny (just listen to Becky fulminate against Harry Potter), but it's also a scary, sobering inside look at the attempts of an increasingly powerful group to erode the separation of church and state.
Jesus Camp will present 1,000 questions on faith, trust, and humanity that are not easily answered; it's a film impossible to ignore.
Perhaps indoctrination is in the eye of the beholder. But one thing is certain: All Christians aren't the same. I'm one, and I found this film to be saddening, not heartening.
Top CriticThis gripping shock-doc looks inside the Kids on Fire evangelical summer camp in North Dakota, where training starts young for a “new army of God” to “take back America for Christ”.
No matter your religious or political affiliation (or lack thereof), this supremely even-handed documentary from Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady is cinematic dynamite.
Top CriticCut to the flickering images of children writhing in a spiritual trance on a chapel floor while being hectored about the glory of dying for Christ, and one knows exactly where the first Christian suicide bombers will come from.
I think they've failed to ask questions that might help their movie cohere. But, even in the pile where the movie leaves them, those questions stand out as timely and chilling.
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Directors Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady let the details speak for themselves.
It's almost impossible not to respond emotionally to this fascinating, sobering and all-too-brief exploration of the politicized religious right and its hopes, dreams and power.
A frightening, infuriating, yet profoundly compassionate documentary about the indoctrination of children by the Evangelical right.
Top CriticEwing and Grady avoid prodding or sneering, giving Fischer and her young charges nearly all the scenes.
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