They’re instructed not to look back, but Lot’s wife does, and is turned into a pillar of salt. Verdean calls up his Israeli contact Boaz (Jemaine Clement), who sells him the “wife of Lot.” The biblical book of Genesis includes a story in which Lot (Abraham’s nephew) and his family are fleeing the degenerate cities of Sodom and Gomorrah as fire and brimstone rain down on them. Some fascinating authentic biblical artifacts in the foyer couldn’t hurt, right?) Hunting for artifacts in the Holy Land. (He is also facing stiff competition from a competing local megachurch that is siphoning away congregants, partly because of the wow factor of its former Satanist pastor, played by Will Forte. He and his faithful assistant (played by Amy Ryan) are praying for some kind of miracle, and it seems to arrive in the form of a megachurch pastor (Danny McBride) who wants to pay Verdean to get major artifacts from the Middle East and bring them to his church - all for the sake of the Kingdom of God, of course. In the film, Verdean was once a popular lecturer, but he hasn’t had a big find in a while and the well is drying up. It’s the only thing that would account for the film’s spot-on dialogue and humor, which skewers a handful of megachurch culture’s obsessions: growing the size of the congregation, providing empirical “proof” for various Bible stories, and supporting, emulating, and idealizing Israel. Presumably director Jared Hess ( Napoleon Dynamite), who, along with his co-writer and wife Jerusalem Hess, is Mormon, did as well. I attribute my delight with the film to the fact that as a kid, I went to more than a few conferences and services where characters like Rockwell’s were speaking.
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I am the only person I know who enjoyed the film as much as I did - it has a mere 30 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. He’s a “biblical archaeologist,” which is like Indiana Jones except with a mission to strengthen the faith of the faithful with the artifacts he retrieves from around the world.
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In fact, it sounded like several movies: maybe one starring Indiana Jones, or the early scenes of The Exorcist.īut for me there was only one analogue: Don Verdean, a film starring Sam Rockwell as the titular character. When the strange story of Hobby Lobby’s illegal smuggling of 5,500 artifacts from Iraq surfaced this week - along with the subsequent payment of a $3 million fine - it was impossible not to think it sounded like a movie. The movie of the week for July 8 to 15 is Don Verdean (2015), which is available to digitally rent on Amazon, Vudu, iTunes, and Google Play. What you can count on is a weekend watch that sheds new light on the week that was. Old, new, blockbuster, arthouse: They’re all fair game.
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Every weekend, we pick a movie you can stream that dovetails with current events.