By Emilio Frenk.
Director: Steve Gomer
Cast: John Corbett, Cara Buono, Barry Corbin, David Keith, Patrick Johnson, Nelson Lee, Myles Moore, John Newberg, Debra Lynn Rogers Welborn and Gregory Alan Williams.
Rating: Good.
TV Director Steve Gomer joins forces with Steve Armour and together they bring “All Saints”, a movie that I was not expecting anything from it but I admit that I was surprised with it`s result.
Based on true events the movie tells the story of Michael Spurlock (John Corbett), a minister from the All Saints Church in Smyrna, Tennessee.
He has recently been ordered to shut down the church, which means a huge ordeal for Michael. Everything will change when a group of Burmese refugees enter in his life and decide to join Michael´s congregation.
They tell Michael that they are farmers and they attempt to use the land that surround the church by planting crops.
Michael thinks it´s a good idea and decides to work with the Burmese and that way save the church of foreclosure.
When it comes from this type of movies, that are faith based I am very skeptical but I was proven wrong with “All Saints”.
This movie is a very solid drama and is a very inspiring story with a simple idea but it works at all levels.
The directing by Steve Gomer was really good and his cast specially John Corbett and Barry Corbin where very good in this picture.
I believe that this is so far the best performance I´ve seen in John Corbett´s career. He plays a man with faith but at the same time he has a lot of struggle and conflict. I feel that Gomer did took advantage of the material and knew how to get the best out of Corbett in his performance that was very convincing.
Steve Armour´s screenplay was very good and I can tell that there was a huge ton of research done for this film and it did payoff.
With this type of movies that are based in real life events, research is the key and Armour´s did a very good work in writing an interesting screenplay.
When I entered this movie I admit that I had no idea what it was going to be about. This might be the reason why I enjoyed it even more and I was very pleased.
In fact I was being prejudice towards it but again I was proven wrong. I have the strong believe that as long as you have a touching and convincing story regardless of the genre, you can conquer the mountain and this is what “All Saints” did.
I believe that if you see this movie you are going to leave inspired and touched with this movie.
“All Saints” is a huge surprised and I give a recommendation to it for it´s solid storytelling and good directing by Steve Bomer.