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Steve Martin's most underrated movie: Leap of Faith

Posted on 9/2/14 at 10:47 pm
Posted by Marc Uffdabees
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Posted on 9/2/14 at 10:47 pm
Early 1990s film where he plays a fraudulent touring minister whose "show" stops in a small Midwest town for a revival that ultimately changes his life.
This post was edited on 9/2/14 at 10:50 pm
Posted by TIGERSTORM
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Posted on 9/3/14 at 2:13 am to
I really like this movie. It's the right amount of funny and cynical. It was streaming on amazon for a while. This is from the thread I started about it a few months ago that lead to a YouTube/google deep dive of info:

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Per imdb this is loosely based on Peter Popoff who would use a radio to have his revelations about people in his audience. He was exposed on the tonight show.
Posted by vandelay industries
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Posted on 9/3/14 at 7:16 am to
good movie that seems to fly under the radar compared to many of his other works.

while much more sillier than 'faith', a guilty pleasure of mine was always 'my blue heaven'...
Posted by Breesus
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Posted on 9/3/14 at 10:24 am to
great movie. The cast is what makes it.
Posted by constant cough
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Posted on 9/3/14 at 11:04 am to
The Spanish Prisoner
Posted by Spock's Eyebrow
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Posted on 9/3/14 at 11:20 am to
I'd have given him all my money.

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You gotta see the whole thing in context, which the clip unfortunately omits, focusing just on Martin's performance. As I recall, it was Jonas's standard schtick when called out on his past, and Winger's reaction shot when he was about to start was hilarious, and at the end of it, I think the choir burst out and brought everyone to the heights of religious ecstasy.
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