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Jim Bakker establishes a large televangelical empire in the 1980s, including Heritage Village. However, they are removed from P.T.L, the ministry that they had established in 1987.
Fall From Grace
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Bernadette Peters Kevin Spacey Richard Herd Beth Grant John McLiam Richard Paul Travis Swords Jon Lindstrom Justin Lord Jean Kasem Randy Crowder John Petlock J. Michael Flynn Mary Ann Gibson Mark Davenport Annabelle Weenick Bob McLean Jean Speegle Howard Charles C. Stevenson Jr. Stuart Nisbet Rod Britt Robert Broyles Duane Grey Charles McDaniel Keith Joe Dick Todd Larson Gina Vinaccia Susan Ware T.V. Reeves Show All…
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29 Apr 1990
- TV NBC
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These days, the prospect of Kevin Spacey playing Jim Bakker - the notorious founder of Praise The Lord Industries who was exposed as a money-bilking, philandering fraud - would be a thrilling one. Back in 1990, before The Usual Suspects and Se7en made him a movie star, as the lead in an NBC TV movie where he spends most of the film wearing Geoffrey Howe's glasses... you know what? It's still pretty great. Spacey's nothing if not intense in the role, delivering some of Bakker's sermons with such a force you almost - almost - understand how people believed that such an obvious phoney was a serious moral voice.
The star of the show, as anyone with knowledge of the…
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You can put down "Bernadette Peters tickling Kevin Spacey" on the list of things I never thought I'd see.
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Seemed like a good thing to watch before THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE comes out. The drama was a bit overheated at times, but overall it was still pretty good for a TV movie. And of course, Kevin Spacey and Bernadette Peters as Jim and Tammy Faye were genius casting choices.
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An almost prophetic title and narrative considering what later happened to Kevin Spacey. He's just awful here, always playing to the back of the house. A strident, insufferable Bernadette Peters is even worse. But it has some amusingly decadent moments and takes a hard line against televangelism and especially Jerry Falwell.
43/100
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Bernadette Peters carried an otherwise very dry movie. And she sings. Praise be to She.
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