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GOD BLESS THE BROKEN ROAD

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GOD BLESS THE BROKEN ROAD tells a profound, poignant story. Amanda is a picture-perfect wife and mother. She has a beautiful voice and sings in the church choir. When her husband is killed in Afghanistan, Amanda doesn’t want to do anything, not even go to church. All Amanda has left is the house and her ring, and she pawns the ring and loses the house. How can Amanda see God’s love in the midst of all these trials and tribulations? How can she be reconciled with her daughter and mother-in-law?

GOD BLESS THE BROKEN ROAD is very well crafted, with good direction and fine acting. The story is heartrending and poignant, with great orchestration of some lighter moments that keep from being maudlin. It’s a testimony to the price everyone needs to pay to defend our freedoms, not just the soldiers but also the families. It’s also a great refutation of bad theology that helps viewers realize the depth of God’s love in the midst of trials and tribulations. MOVIEGUIDE® advises slight caution for people who are sensitive to psychological pain.

Content:

(CCC, PPP, BBB, V, M):

Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:
Very strong Christian, patriotic worldview reflecting biblical principles about a war widow and her daughter who loses her faith with grieving and self-pity and needs to understand God’s love to overcome her tragedy;

Foul Language:
No foul language;

Violence:
Some very light war violence showing an ambush in a scouting party in Afghanistan, some race car violence, and extreme anguish when a child runs away from home;

Sex:
No sex;

Nudity:
No nudity;

Alcohol Use:
No alcohol;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:
No smoking or drugs; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:
Anger toward God, girl is angry toward her mother, daughter runs away from home, fighting between woman and her widowed daughter-in-law, disreputable pawnbroker, callous banker, foolhardy race car driver.

More Detail:

GOD BLESS THE BROKEN ROAD tells a profound, poignant story of a war widow named Amanda who gets angry at God, loses her faith and is brought to her knees to restore her life. The movie is very clean and evangelical, with brief war violence and deep, insightful discussions about why bad things happen to good people.

The movie opens with a scouting party of American 101st Airborne soldiers in Afghanistan treating their expedition with humor and grace. Cut to Amanda leading the church choir. She is a picture-perfect wife and mother with a beautiful voice. Then, two soldiers walk in to tell Amanda her husband, Darren, has just died in combat. She collapses.

Cut to Amanda sometime later not wanting to get up to go to church, but her daughter, Brie, wants to go to Sunday School. She drives Brie to church. Then, a professional race car driver named Cody, who’s been sent to train under Joe, a racing expert who runs an auto repair shop in disrepair, sees Amanda in the church parking lot and is impressed. Cody is full of himself and unwilling to learn how to drive his race car properly so he can finally win a race. Amanda wants no part of anybody, including Cody. She’s running out of time and money.

Amanda starts working longer hours as a waitress. She gets a loan from a disreputable pawnbroker because the bank is heartless and wants to foreclose on her mortgage. Amanda’s mother-in-law wants to take care of Brie and thinks Amanda’s doing a bad job raising Brie. All Amanda has left from Darren is the house and her ring, and she pawns the ring and loses the house.

How can Amanda see God’s love in the midst of all these trials and tribulations? How can she be reconciled with Patty, her mother-in-law, and Brie? How can Cody turn into the man he should be, not only to win races but also to win Amanda?

GOD BLESS THE BROKEN ROAD is very well crafted, with good direction and fine acting from a cast that’s not well known. The story is heartrending and poignant, with great orchestration of some lighter moments that keep it from becoming maudlin. It’s a testimony to the price that everyone needs to pay to defend our freedoms, not just the soldiers but also the families. It is also a great expose and refutation of bad theology that helps viewers realize the depth and breadth of God’s love in the midst of trials and tribulations.

MOVIEGUIDE® advises a slight caution for younger children and people who are sensitive to psychological pain. That’s because of the death of the father in the movie, the spiraling out of control of the mother, the potential for self-destruction, and some other serious themes.

Now more than ever we’re bombarded by darkness in media, movies, and TV. Movieguide® has fought back for almost 40 years, working within Hollywood to propel uplifting and positive content. We’re proud to say we’ve collaborated with some of the top industry players to influence and redeem entertainment for Jesus. Still, the most influential person in Hollywood is you. The viewer.

What you listen to, watch, and read has power. Movieguide® wants to give you the resources to empower the good and the beautiful. But we can’t do it alone. We need your support.

You can make a difference with as little as $7. It takes only a moment. If you can, consider supporting our ministry with a monthly gift. Thank you.

Movieguide® is a 501c3 and all donations are tax deductible.


Now more than ever we’re bombarded by darkness in media, movies, and TV. Movieguide® has fought back for almost 40 years, working within Hollywood to propel uplifting and positive content. We’re proud to say we’ve collaborated with some of the top industry players to influence and redeem entertainment for Jesus. Still, the most influential person in Hollywood is you. The viewer.

What you listen to, watch, and read has power. Movieguide® wants to give you the resources to empower the good and the beautiful. But we can’t do it alone. We need your support.

You can make a difference with as little as $7. It takes only a moment. If you can, consider supporting our ministry with a monthly gift. Thank you.

Movieguide® is a 501c3 and all donations are tax deductible.


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