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Wise Blood (1980)
In reaction to the stern fundamentalism of his grandfather and the rigid Puritanism of his mother, Hazel Motes, an army veteran, decides to establish a Church Without Christ. Using his rattletrap car as a pulpit, he announces: "I'm member and preacher to the Church were the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way."
| Release Date: | February 17th, 1980 |
| Running Time: | 108 minutes |
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I am not a reader of Flannery O'Conner, so I can't comment on her point, but I know she is considered a great American writer of Southern Gothic fiction, and that she only wrote two novels, one of which was made into this film.
I am familiar with Brad Dourif, who got an Oscar nomination for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's...
(complete Wise Blood review by Movie Addict)
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