Movie Review - "Sunday School"

Rachel comes back home after trying a career as an actress, and she had to start off as a video girl. Grandma forces her to go back to the church of her childhood. She meets her old best friend and one of the young pastors gets interested in Rachel.

This movie had so much promise but is hindered by a bunch of things. The acting is mostly good but there were some scenes that were pretty bad. The sound editing is really lacking as within one scene the sound from one camera angle has a ton more background noise than the next angle. There were also more than a few awkward camera angles, some where they broke the rule of thirds for no apparent reason.

Ok, all that aside, the plot is pretty good but not great. David and Rachel have several struggles while David's brother Darrel lets his seriousness for the ministry get the better of his relationship with his girlfriend. The clique-ishness of some of the people is a little overblown. My concern is that its not clear that David ever asked Rachel about her relationship with Jesus. Its just kind of assumed that she must have received Christ as a child.

It bugs me that most of the characters don't learn anything through the course of the movie. For instance, Rachel has no idea that this "screen test" is not really for a standard movie. How can she not? At no point in the movie does she seem naive until this supposed "screen test". Oh yeah, then she accepts vodka at this screen test. Oops!

If the overall point, is that people should be real with each other, then, it certainly does that. The more fake they are, the worse the situation in the movie gets.

Maybe its worth a rent but this would not be a movie I'd put on my shelf.