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Jesus Camp

starring: Mike Papantonio, Becky Fischer, Ted Haggard
directed by: Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: MAGNOLIA HOME ENTERTAINMENT
EAN: 0876964000628
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Magnolia
Manufacturer: Magnolia
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Magnolia
Release Date: January 23, 2007
Running Time: 87 minutes
Sales Rank: 7186
Studio: Magnolia
Theatrical Release Date: 2006



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This follows 3 kids to pastor becky fischers kids on fire suumer camp where kids as young as 6 years old are taught to become dedicated christian soldiers in gods army. Studio: Magnolia Pict Hm Ent Release Date: 12/31/2007 Run time: 87 minutes Rating: Pg13

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The feverish spectacle of a summer camp for evangelical Christian kids is the focus of Jesus Camp, a fascinating if sometimes alarming documentary. (Shortly after its release, the movie gained a new notoriety when Ted Haggard, president of the National Association of Evangelicals, who appears near the end of the film, resigned his post amid a male prostitute's allegations of drug use and sexual misconduct.) For most of the film, we follow a charismatic teacher, Becky Fischer, as she trains young soldiers in 'God's Army' at a camp in North Dakota. Some of the kids emerge as likable and bright, and eager to continue their work as pint-sized preachers; elsewhere, the visions of children speaking in tongues and falling to the floor in ecstasy are more troubling. Even more arresting is the vision of a generation of children home-schooled to believe that the Bible is science, or Fischer's certainty that America's flawed system of democracy will someday be replaced by a theocracy. (In one scene, a cardboard cut-out of George W. Bush is presented to the children, who react by laying their hands on the figure as though in a religious procession.) Filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady maintain neutrality about all this, maybe too much so (they throw in some interviews with radio host Mike Papantonio to provide a liberal-Christian viewpoint) and one would like to know more about the grown-ups presented here. Power broker Haggard is the creepiest person in the film, an insincere smooth talker whose advice to one of the young would-be campgoers comes across as entirely cynical. Time will tell whether the film's Christian soldiers will be marching onward. --Robert Horton



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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Scary, Gut-wrenching
What's so scary about this film is that I grew up like that. I went to these children's revivals and ... Read More


Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Mostly bigoted exploitation with moments of sympathy
This is a documentary is a candid glimpse of the fevered minds of--not of the evangelical right, but ... Read More


Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - I Don't Know These People
I passed over this at the video store before finally renting it. I hesitated because I knew, just from ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - One of the most important films you'll ever see
There is a legal maxim that says "Res Ipsa Loquitur", which is Latin for "The thing speaks for itself". ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Rod Vargas
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