A new movie will be in theaters on February 24th, “JESUS REVOLUTION”. It’s a must-see.
This is not a faith-based movie as much as it is a movie of faith and revival. Specifically, it’s the historic retelling of what TIME Magazine called the “The Jesus Movement”, a series of events that happened in southern California in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s that launched the biggest spiritual awakening in American history, setting in motion a new counterculture crusade.
“In the 1970s, young Greg Laurie (Joel Courtney) is searching for all the right things in all the wrong places: until he meets Lonnie Frisbee (Jonathan Roumie), a charismatic hippie-street-preacher. Together with Pastor Chuck Smith (Kelsey Grammer), they open the doors of Smith’s languishing church to an unexpected revival of radical and newfound love.” Charlene Laurie (Kimberly Williams Paisley) and Cathe Laurie (Anna Grace Barlow) also play pivotal roles.
I recently had Kelsey Grammer, who portrays Pastor Chuck Smith, on my podcast, LOVE SOMEONE with Delilah, and was able to get a sneak-peak at the movie before the conversation. I would have a difficult time expressing to you how much I loved it. I was a pre-teen when billboards outside my small hometown began proclaiming “I Found God!” The movement was spreading, though it would be another 15 years or so before I was to have my own, personal, Jesus revolution that changed my life forevermore.
Get Tickets HERE
People are not perfect, and that is why God uses broken, ordinary people to do extraordinary things. The church is not perfect either, and JESUS REVOLUTION shows a wide variety of faith experiences, making it accessible and honest.
Written by Jon Erwin and Jon Gunn
Directed by Jon Erwin and Brent McCorkle
Produced by Kevin Downes, Jon and Andrew Erwin, along with Josh Walsh and Daryl Lefever
