Mild spoilers at best, no bombshells.
I was somewhat pushed to watching this movie in the theater. We had seen previews of it and a short story on television about the making of the movie and while it seemed to be a little bit interesting, I was more skeptical since so many faith-based movies are full of contrived situations. I was very pleasantly surprised and thanked those who convinced me to go see it. Giving it a 10 because there is no reason not to.
The story is well detailed in other viewer reviews and the synopsis. The pace of the film is slow, somewhat predictable but not completely. The slow pace is all right most of the time but there are a few places were I was urging the story to get on with it. Considering the plot, the screen play probably needed some of that padding to fill the time necessary for a theater feature length. The visuals were somewhat repetitive but not much was there to have impressive cinematography. The actors all did a very good and convincing job and the roles were very well cast. Barry Corbin is superb. How he played his role, slowly developing and brutally honest is in our opinion the best in the movie. John Corbett is also very good. Always with a touch of Northern Exposure in each role he plays, this time he was very convincing as a newbie minister in the Episcopal Church. Cara Buono was the most surprising of the these three. She was fresh without any telltale from her previous roles.
The ending is surprising and unexpected. Impending doom is suggested suddenly and very quickly. There are a couple of twists at the end which makes it worth while to stick with it to the end. The postlude story which reflects back to those in the true story is great. You know this is one movie that is truly "Base on a true story." Too often that tag stretches the imagination. Not this time.
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