- Content: “Christian Charity Can Lift a Body’s Soul”
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What You Need To Know:
Though sometimes a little stagey, THE CHARITABLE SISTERHOOD is a touching and surprising Christian drama with fun performances and a tight and witty script. Gratefully, the movie doesn’t get bogged down in beating viewers over the head with heavy themes. However, it does have a strong Christian, morally uplifting worldview many positive references to God and prayer. For example, there is a cross at the beginning of the movie. Also, the characters promote helping others in need, gratitude, compassion, forgiveness, and honesty. However, the women sometimes gossip and make a few snide comments. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for younger children for THE CHARITABLE SISTERHOOD OF THE SECOND TRINITY VICTORY CHURCH.
Content:
Very strong Christian, moral with many positive references to God and prayer, a cross is shown at the beginning of the movie, several people quote Bible verses, one woman says all people are blessed in the sight of the Lord, characters promote and practice helping others in need, prayer, gratitude, compassion, forgiveness, and honesty, but one person plans on lying to help someone;
No obscenities, but one light exclamatory profanity;
A woman snatches an item from another woman, characters talk about shooting and killing someone, and abuse with hands and a belt;
No sex;
No implied or depicted nudity, but a character talks about once rolling herself in saran wrap and nothing else, which is rebuked by another character who points out that woman’s body is her private business, a woman wears a blouse that shows some cleavage and even admits she does this on purpose and shakes her chest, plus another woman has no pants, because they were muddy and you can see her bare legs before she puts new pants on;
No alcohol use;
No smoking or drugs;
Characters gossip about church congregation members, people make a few snide but mild comments, and a woman jokes that someone called another woman a witch.
More Detail:
The movie begins with outside nighttime footage of the rain storm. A radio announcer reports there is a flash flood warning due to the storm in all the counties and encourages everyone to stay inside. Meanwhile, Lorraine, a member of the Charitable Sisterhood of the Second Trinity Victory Church, looks for the light switch in a room next to the church office. She finds it just as fellow member Tina arrives.
Lorraine and Tina notice the big heap of clothes and objects in the center of the room. Tina sets some shoes on the floor to start a pile, and Lorraine warns her that Bea, the founder of the sisterhood and the pastor’s wife, doesn’t appreciate other people taking the initiative. Bea will suggest other people’s ideas as if she was the one to come up with them. Despite Lorraine’s caution, Tina grabs a table to set up and put all the items on it.
Bea arrives and observes Tina pulling the table. She asks her what she’s doing, and Tina tells her. As Lorraine predicted, Bea instructs the two ladies to set up tables. Tina does so, asks for help from Bea, Bea helps her and tells the two women to sort the items. Lorraine and Tina obey.
As they sort through the clothes, they talk about the different people that signed up to help, including Janet. While talking about Janet and her mysterious husband, Janet arrives and stops by the bathroom. When Janet returns, she asks if there’s a radio available, and Bea tells her that there might be one in her husband’s office. Janet says they should get it out to keep track of the news about the storm.
Janet helps the other ladies sort and states how honored she is to be invited to become a member of the sisterhood. After the sound of thunder, Bea asks Tina to get the radio from her husband’s office and bring it into the room. As Bea, Lorraine, and Janet talk, Bea wonders what’s taking Tina so long.
Tina walks in and requests a hand with the equipment. Janet pulls it in as Tina pushes it. As Bea turns on the radio, they talk and Tina walks to the pile, grabs a first aid kit, and gasps. Tina says that something in the pile moved. Bea notices as well, and they all pull out a young woman from inside the pile of clothing.
THE CHARITABLE SISTERHOOD is a touching and surprising Christian comedy with fun performances and a tight and witty script. The movie gratefully doesn’t get bogged down in beating viewers over the head with heavy themes and dialogue. It takes place in one location, which makes sense since the filmmakers used a play as the source material. However, this sometimes makes the story drag.
THE CHARITABLE SISTERHOOD OF THE SECOND TRINITY VICTORY CHURCH has a strong Christian, morally uplifting worldview, with many positive references to God and prayer. For example, there is a cross at the beginning of the movie. Several characters quote Bible verses. Also, a character says that all are blessed in the sight of the Lord. Finally, the characters promote helping others in need, gratitude, compassion, forgiveness, and honesty. However, the women sometimes gossip and make a few snide comments. Also, a character plans on lying to help someone. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for younger children.
