REDEEMING HOPE

Name: REDEEMING HOPE
Item: REDEEMING HOPE
Author: Cooper Dowd

"Jesus Provides Redemption, Recovery and Reconciliation"

Family Content: -2 Extreme caution for older teenagers and adults.

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What You Need To Know:

REDEEMING HOPE is an evangelical drama on Amazon Prime. Inspired by true events, it follows a man named Denver McCabe, a military team leader who lives with the PTSD caused by an intense firefight with Arab terrorists who killed one of his best friends. Denver abandons his marriage, becomes a homeless alcoholic and drug abuser, and starts working for a criminal identity theft ring. When he’s at his lowest point, a neighborhood evangelist arrives just as Denver is about to commit suicide. Will he give in to permanent despair, or accept the Gospel and find new life in Jesus Christ?

REDEEMING HOPE relies almost completely on narration by Denver to explain the drama onscreen. However, the narration is well-written and movingly delivered by actor and co-writer Stacey Shiflett to keep viewers engrossed in the storyline. REDEEMING HOPE has a moving third act and is helped by a touching musical score and a strong, inspiring Christian message. However, there’s too much narration, and the performances are overdone. REDEEMING HOPE has some strong battle violence and depicts drunkenness and heroin use in a negative fashion.

Content:

(CCC, BBB, VV, AA, DD, M)

Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

Very strong Christian, evangelical worldview promotes redemption, reconciliation, salvation, deliverance, and recovery through the Gospel of Jesus Christ, as well as church and prayer, but it also shows heroin injection, drunkenness, repeated flashbacks to firefights in a war zone with machine guns where people are killed

Foul Language:

No foul language

Violence:

Strong violence includes an intense machine-gun firefight breaks out between American soldiers and Islamic terrorists, in which multiple terrorists are shot dead and one American is mortally wounded, this scene is repeated throughout the movie as flashbacks, a man resists arrest after fleeing from police, man loads a gun with bullets and points it under his chin ready to commit suicide before he is interrupted, and man is beaten by several thugs with bats

Sex:

No sex

Nudity:

No nudity

Alcohol Use:

Multiple scenes of a man getting drunk on beer and passing out on sidewalks

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

No smoking, but

Miscellaneous Immorality:

Protagonist becomes a pickpocket and thief, working for drugs as pay for a criminal who has an identity theft ring, plus protagonist shouts and waves his arms wildly while arguing with his wife.

More Detail:

REDEEMING HOPE is an evangelical drama on Amazon Prime. Inspired by true events, it follows the story of a man named Denver McCabe, a military team leader who lives with the PTSD caused by an intense firefight with Arab terrorists that killed one of his best friends. Denver abandons his marriage, becomes a homeless alcoholic and drug abuser, and starts working for a criminal identity theft ring.

When he’s at his lowest point, a neighborhood evangelist arrives just as Denver is about to commit suicide. Will he give in to permanent despair, or accept the Gospel and find new life in Jesus Christ?

Produced by Remnant Ministries and the Gospel Film Project, the vast majority of REDEEMING HOPE relies almost completely on narration by Denver to explain the drama happening onscreen. However, the narration is well-written and movingly delivered by actor/co-writer Stacey Shiflett to keep viewers engrossed in the storyline. Also, the climactic scenes between Denver and the evangelist are undeniably moving, and a touching musical score helps the movie immensely.

REDEEMING HOPE has a strong, inspiring Christian message. It promotes redemption, reconciliation, salvation, deliverance, and recovery through the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

There’s no foul language or lewd content in REDEEMING HOPE, but it has some strong battle violence. It also depicts drunkenness and heroin use in a negative fashion. These images and themes make this a movie that’s more suitable for older teenagers and adults, the very audience that probably will be most moved by it. Besides Amazon Prime, REDEEMING HOPE is available for free to any church or Christian group interested in showing it.