Salvation!
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Directed by | Beth B. |
Produced by | Beth B. |
Written by | Beth B. Tom Robinson |
Starring | Stephen McHattie Dominique Davalos Exene Cervenka Viggo Mortensen Rockets Redglare |
Cinematography | Francis Kenny |
Editing by | Elizabeth Kling |
Distributed by | Circle Films |
Release date(s) | 1987 |
Running time | 80 min |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
IMDb profile |
Salvation! is a 1987 film by Beth B. (Beth Billingsly) and starring Exene Cervenka and Stephen McHattie. The film is a spoof of televangelism released right after the real-life Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart scandals.
McHattie plays Reverend Randall, a Staten Island-based televangelist who has been bilking his flock and secretly watches pornography while he is rehearing his sermons in his stately home. Cervenka plays Rhonda Stample, a born again believer. After Rhonda's husband, a non-believer, loses his factory job, he and two cousins enlist Rhonda in a plot to entrap Rev. Randall in a sex scandal and blackmail him.
The film's theme music is by the group New Order, who also contributed a further four original pieces to the soundtrack including "Touched by the Hand of God".
Tagline: SEX. POWER. MONEY. It's all in the name of God
- This film is only available on VHS.