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Top 10 Movies About Serving Your Community

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Top 10 Movies about Serving Your Community

By Movieguide Contributor

A beautiful aspect of this moment in history is the emphasis on serving others and loving your neighbor. This can be seen through the movies that are coming out in the recent years, like HIDDEN FIGURES or REAGAN. We’re compiling some of our favorites for your enjoyment and to maybe find inspiration to help the people around you, too!

OVERCOMER

Quality:
****
Content:
+4 Biblical, usually Christian, worldview, with no questionable elements whatsoever.
OVERCOMER is the heartwarming, often funny, poignant story of a young, new track star named Hannah who runs to Christ with the help of a basketball coach. OVERCOMER features a very strong Christian worldview and is filled with many touching, poignant moments.

BLUE MIRACLE

Quality:
****
Content:
+3 Some minor questionable elements. (Media-wisdom is suggested to discuss.)
BLUE MIRACLE is an enjoyable drama streaming on Netflix about a man in Cabo, Mexico who’s on the brink of losing his orphanage, so he enters a fishing competition with a grumpy former winner. BLUE MIRACLE is a wonderful, heartwarming and often funny Christian drama that’s extremely entertaining, morally uplifting and spiritually inspiring.

HIDDEN FIGURES

Quality:
****
Content:
-1 Caution advised for older children, including teenagers, and sensitive adults.
HIDDEN FIGURES is an engaging, encouraging, uplifting salute to three African-American women who contribute greatly to the 1960s NASA program during the Space Race with Communist Russia. Led by three fantastic actresses, HIDDEN FIGURES is an uplifting movie that exemplifies a positive way to stand with Christian strength and grace in the face of opposition, but caution is advised for older children due to many light obscenities and one strong profanity.

UP

Quality:
****
Content:
+3 Some minor questionable elements. (Media-wisdom is suggested to discuss.)
UP, the new animated feature from Pixar and Disney, is about a 78-year-old widower and a young boy scout who find the adventure of a lifetime on a jungle plateau in Venezuela full of unknown dangers. UP is another heartfelt, family-friendly, utterly delightful animated classic from the wonderful team at Pixar and Disney.

THE ULTIMATE GIFT

Quality:
****
Content:
+4 Biblical, usually Christian, worldview, with no questionable elements whatsoever.
THE ULTIMATE GIFT is about a smart-aleck young man who goes on a treasure hunt for the gift left to him by his late, rich grandfather. THE ULTIMATE GIFT is just that — a very entertaining, emotional, finely crafted, highly polished gem with a very strong Christian worldview that teaches valuable lessons.

JESUS REVOLUTION

Quality:
****
Content:
-1 Caution advised for older children, including teenagers, and sensitive adults.
JESUS REVOLUTION is a very entertaining and accurate, though compressed, portrait of the Vietnam protest era of hippies and young revolutionaries who find Jesus because God calls several people to welcome them into the Body of Christ. At its heart, the plot is propelled by a love story between an impoverished young man, Greg Laurie, with an alcoholic mother, and a beautiful young woman named Cathe, from a wealthy Laguna Hills family in Southern California. JESUS REVOLUTION is very bold about showing drug use, communal living, protest rallies, and Christian hypocrisy, but it also has many scenes of intense jeopardy and many scenes featuring inspiring, uplifting, well-written Christian presentations and expressions of the Gospel.

SOUND OF HOPE: THE STORY OF POSSOM TROT

Quality:
****
Content:
-1 Caution advised for older children, including teenagers, and sensitive adults.
SOUND OF HOPE: THE STORY OF POSSUM TROT tells the heartwarming story of a pastor’s wonderful family that feels the call of God to foster some children and inspires an entire town. SOUND OF HOPE: THE STORY OF POSSUM TROT is a beautiful Christian story about taking care of children, but caution is advised for children because some of the foster children have suffered through some terrible things.

REAGAN

Quality:
****
Content:
+1 Moderately questionable elements. (Discernment required for young children.)
REAGAN stars Dennis Quaid as the 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan. It covers Reagan’s life from his childhood to his death, with a strong focus throughout the movie on his life-long fight against communism, from his battle in the Screen Actors Guild against communist infiltration in the Hollywood unions in the late 1940s to his battle against the Soviet Union’s communist tyranny in Germany and Eastern Europe. Dennis Quaid gives a bravura performance in REAGAN as the beloved President, union leader and movie star, and the movie’s focus on Reagan’s fight against communism gives a strong narrative structure to the movie’s stirring story of faith and patriotism.

CHUPA

Quality:
****
Content:
+3 Some minor questionable elements. (Media-wisdom is suggested to discuss.)
CHUPA is a delightful, animated fantasy on Netflix about the friendship between a miniature Chupacabra, the legendary Latin American creature, and a young Mexican boy from Kansas, who helps the creature get back to its mother. CHUPA is an engaging, family-friendly adventure full of heart, humor and flare, with compelling storytelling and uplifting values stressing family, love, protecting the innocent, and helping others.

LETTERS TO GOD

Quality:
****
Content:
+4 Biblical, usually Christian, worldview, with no questionable elements whatsoever.
LETTERS TO GOD is an entertaining, heart-rending, and inspiring story about a boy with cancer whose letters to God change the lives of the people around him. LETTERS TO GOD is an impressive, well-written, redemptive, powerful movie that will touch the hearts of most people who see it.

Watch PO
Quality: - Content: +1
Watch DISNEY'S THE KID
Quality: - Content: +3