Jesus' Son

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Jesus' Son

Promotional movie poster for the film
Directed by Alison Maclean
Produced by Elizabeth Cuthrell
Lydia Dean Pilcher
Written by Elizabeth Cuthrell
David Urrutia
Oren Moverman
Starring Billy Crudup
Robert Michael Kelly
Torben Brooks
Music by Joe Henry
Cinematography Adam Kimmel
Editing by Stuart Levy
Geraldine Peroni
Distributed by Lion's Gate Films
Release date(s) 1999
Running time 107 mins
Country Canada
USA
Language [English Language
Budget $2,500,000
IMDb profile

Jesus' Son was a 1999 film adapted from a collection of short stories of the same name by Denis Johnson. It starred Billy Crudup, Samantha Morton, Holly Hunter, Dennis Hopper, Denis Leary, Will Patton, John Ventimiglia, and Jack Black. It was awarded the "Little Golden Lion" award and the Ecumenical Award at the 1999 Venice Film Festival, and was named one of the top ten films of the year by The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and Roger Ebert, among others.

The screenplay was written by Elizabeth Cuthrell, David Urrutia, and Oren Moverman, directed by Alison Maclean, and produced by Elizabeth Cuthrell, David Urrutia, and Lydia Pilcher for Evenstar Films. It was distributed in the United States by Lions Gate Films.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

A gentle and usually mellow young man, who sometimes knows things before they happen and gets vibes of premonition, tell us his story: how he met Michelle in Iowa in 1971, how he got the name Fuckhead, how she introduced him to heroin and their falling in love, his thieving, his hospital work and their time in Chicago when she gets pregnant, detox, going to Phoenix to live, AA meetings and a dance, working at a care center where he learns to touch the residents, and modifying his daily schedule so that he passes a neighboring Mennonite household at the right time to hear the wife sing Gospel songs in the shower.

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