A heist of a corrupt preacher goes wrong.A heist of a corrupt preacher goes wrong.A heist of a corrupt preacher goes wrong.
Brad Koepenick
- Rickey Marcell
- (as Brad Kepnick)
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- TriviaAlthough the leading couple are often presumed to be a send-up of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, the televangelists' scandal didn't erupt until five days before filming was completed.
- GoofsOfficer Depaul informs the sheriff that all members of the terrorist group are only armed with pistols (another character makes a similar comment later on). However, one of them carries a shotgun, visible at all times considering that there's cameras filming the group.
False: One officer says, "Look all they got in there is pistols and a two barrel. Don't blow it out of proportion. That's how wars get started." The two barrel is referring to a shotgun.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Hollywood vs. Religion (1994)
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mild but entertaining satire needs sharper teeth
Don't expect much subtlety from this broad but skin-deep satire of TV evangelism, in which an amiable quartet of amateur thieves takes over a TV temple and holds the clergy hostage against a siege of state militia, local police, yellow journalists, and resident vigilantes (can you guess who gets the most sympathy?). The script is more than a little self-satisfied, taking earnest potshots at easy targets without inflicting any serious damage, and except for Tim Curry (who plays the greedy preacher with his tongue firmly in cheek), the holy rollers and gullible worshippers are all too exaggerated to be convincing (it's hard to fake so much bogus sincerity). But once the stand-off is finally underway (after a set-up stretched twenty minutes too long) the story relaxes enough to give the characters room to have fun. The film is certainly no 'Dog Day Afternoon', but it does have its moments, and no one can say it isn't lively. Too bad the real thing (Jim and Tammy Baker; the good reverend Swaggart et al) is so much funnier.
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- Gross US & Canada
- $169,785
- Gross worldwide
- $169,785
- Runtime1 hour 33 minutes
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