Faith like potatoes 2006
And there’s only so much grace an indie film director can confer on the rest of the movie to remedy what was already starting to feel like a serious imbalance.Īrtistically, Faith Like Potatoes was… well, it was an indie film-not an “independent” film the colloquial shorthand is important here but a choppy, hard-to-follow “indie” movie with a lot of unnecessary scenes, a lot of distracting scenes, and a couple of untried actors that hadn’t had the opportunity to perfect their technique yet. But it’s a case of grace abounding more in the life of a man saved in his adulthood, after a season of bitterness and unbelief-making him a testimony to the power of God to redeem a life from what Angus would later call “that bottomless pit.” When you’re talking about the movie, though, forty-two minutes is a very long first impression to overcome. When you’re talking about the man, the good part of his story didn’t begin until 1978, when he and his wife were saved by Jesus Christ. The first several years of his life-and the first forty-two minutes of his movie-wouldn’t have given anyone a very positive first impression of Mr. If first impressions were all we got, and first impressions truly couldn’t be completely overcome, Angus Buchan (not to mention a lot of other people who didn’t make it into the movies) would have it pretty rough by now. 2006įor some thematic material, an accident scene, mild language, and brief smoking. Some of the older reviews may express opinions and judgment calls that are not in line with our current standards. NOTE: This review was written under a previous rating system.