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Hollywood veterans will tell you that if a low-budget movie makes it into theaters, it's a miracle. But when Alex and Stephen Kendrick say that, they mean it literally. The Kendrick brothers, ministers at Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Ga., are the writers, producers and directors of the surprise hit Fireproof. Shot on a $500,000 budget with an all-volunteer cast and donated sets and locations, their drama about a fire captain trying to rekindle his marriage made $6.8 million in its opening weekend at the box office, coming in fourth overall, between a Samuel L. Jackson...
...rest of the characters are as admirably cast. His would-be love interest, Ginny Ryerson (Anna Kendrick, in a marvelous breakthrough performance), is the preppy perfectionist of the school debate team, whose ice-cold ambition drives her to do whatever is necessary to win. She convinces Hal to become her debate partner, and he jumps in headfirst, hoping to master love and public debate in the same sitting. Aaron Yoo nearly steals the movie as Hal’s curiously surreal friend Heston, who casts a strange otherworldliness that would put E.T. to shame. Despite his limited screen time...
...gets excellent support from the two comic leads: the giant, sweetly Shrek-like Chamberlin and the smaller Christopher Fitzgerald, who makes me think of Sean Penn reconfigured as a tummeling song-and-dance man. I also liked the unaffected geniality of Shonn Wiley and was dazzled to submission by Kendrick Jones, tap-dancer supreme and a handsome charmer, if I may say, to boot...
...Kendrick: "That they're literal...
...successful class teaching the Bible as an academic subject hardly guarantees that it will work every time or everywhere. But Kendrick shows that it can work. "Bad courses will be taught," predicts Prothero, sitting in his B.U. office with the inscription Sans Dieu Rien--Without God, Nothing--carved above the fireplace. (True to his nonsectarian position, he calls its presence "a coincidence. This used to be a private house.") "People will teach it as a Sunday-school class. And we'll do what we always do when unconstitutional stuff happens in America. We'll get a court to tell...