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Jesus' Son (1999)

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80

Average Rating: 7.6/10
Critic Reviews: 10
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 2

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Average Rating: 3.8/5
User Ratings: 6,709

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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

Sep 19, 2000

Lions Gate Films

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takes some different turns

July 22, 2012 Full Review Source: Old School Reviews

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.

May 29, 2012 Full Review Source: Sin Magazine
Sin Magazine

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.

January 7, 2010 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com
TheMovieReport.com

Between a wasted world of heartland junkies and the dazed, private induced euphoria of one hopeful loser among them.

September 22, 2007
Long Island Press

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

November 9, 2006 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com
EmanuelLevy.Com

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.

May 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid
Combustible Celluloid

Despite the occasional miscalculation and disappointing last half-hour, an estimable piece of work.

December 6, 2005 Full Review Source: One Guy's Opinion
One Guy's Opinion

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.

December 6, 2004 Full Review Source: Looking Closer
Looking Closer

Audience Reviews for Jesus' Son

We are all his sons asshole!
December 21, 2009
LoughnerWasLucid

Super Reviewer

Jesus' Son is a really fun and hysterical movie about the adventures of a dope fiend. Of course, finding the movie fun may be completely missing the point but then again I've always been a fan of the random humor which is served up in abundance here. The story's told through a series of almost vignettes where the great cast (for the most part) only gets a few minutes to shine. The movie never glamorizes drug use but at the same time never really seems to go out of its way to not make it entertaining. If that makes any sense. Unfortunately, the movie (like most drug people I've known through the years) gets dull as hell once it sobers up. Which may or may not be the entire point of the movie. Great movie full of great moments with a great soundtrack.
November 19, 2006
mjgildea

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