Jesus' Son (1999)
Average Rating: 7.2/10
Reviews Counted: 47
Fresh: 38 | Rotten: 9
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Average Rating: 7.6/10
Critic Reviews: 10
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 2
No consensus yet.
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Average Rating: 3.8/5
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In this independent drama, a young man tries to find himself in the early 1970s as he wades through a swamp of heroin addiction. FH (Billy Crudup) is a well-intentioned but weak-willed man whose propensity for messing up his life has earned him his nickname, short for "F--khead." FH's problems with drugs begin in earnest when he falls in love with Michelle (Samantha Morton), a beautiful but emotionally unsettled woman addicted to heroin. FH soon finds himself drawn to the needle, and the couple
Jun 1, 1999 Wide
Sep 19, 2000
Lions Gate Films
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Cast
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Billy Crudup
F.H. -
Samantha Morton
Michelle -
Denis Leary
Wayne -
Jack Black
Georgie -
Will Patton
John Smith -
Greg Germann
Dr. Shanis -
Holly Hunter
Mira -
Dennis Hopper
Bill -
Mike Shannon
Dundun
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takes some different turns
JESUS' SON is bottom of the line trash that wants to be art. Full of self important crap, tedious performances, and embarrassing experimental flourishes, this is a movie to avoid at all costs.
While one is able to get interested in FH's internal workings, it's more difficult to get too invested in his external actions--that is, on rare occasion he does act rather than react.
Between a wasted world of heartland junkies and the dazed, private induced euphoria of one hopeful loser among them.
The film uses dreamlike quality to evoke youth subculture of the 1970s, and Billy Crudup is perfectlt cast as a man who believes he possesses healing powers and wants to do good, but his attempts always end disastrously
Manages to blend its stories together into a nearly seamless narrative, sliding dreamily from one episode to the next before we even realize we've gone.
Despite the occasional miscalculation and disappointing last half-hour, an estimable piece of work.
When the film finds a note of bittersweet conclusion, I'm wondering why all these colorful threads remained so loose when they might have woven into an interesting story.
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