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Wise Blood
Directed by
John Huston
PG
1980
1h 46m
Drama
,
Comedy
6.9
89%
74%
6.4
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Fresh out of the army, Hazel Motes attempts to open the first Church Without Christ in the small town of Taulkinham.
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Cast of Wise Blood
Brad Dourif
Hazel Motes
Dan Shor
Enoch Emory
Amy Wright
Sabbath Lily
Harry Dean Stanton
Asa Hawks
Mary Nell Santacroce
Landlady
Ned Beatty
Hoover Shoates
John Huston
Grandfather / Director
William Hickey
Preacher
J.L. Parker
Karl
Marvin Sapp
Raymond
Richard Earle
Jakob Winslow
Herb Kossover
Jacob Wood
Betty Lou Groover
Leora Watts
John Tyndall
Loki Martinson
Gillaaron Houck
Stranger #1
Philip Mixer
Stranger #2
Sharon Johnson
Stranger #3
Joe Dorsey
Stranger #4
Stratton Leopold
Depressed Human / Casting
Leonard Holmes
Stranger #5
Wise Blood Ratings & Reviews
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
It would be no easy task bringing Flannery O'Connor's stories to the screen, yet here's John Huston bucking the odds as he often did over the course of his remarkable career.
Washington Blade
Tom Huhn
Every shot in the film seems efficient and economical: clever and skillful in most cases, but always precise. [It] leaves the viewer amazed, puzzled, but finally satisfied. The film is ultimately honest at a time when that quality seems rarer and rarer.
New West/California
Stephen Farber
Wise Blood is as sly and nimble as some of the late films of Bunuel. Huston is now 73, so this is an old man's film, but it has a vigor and audacity that most young directors should envy.
TIME Magazine
Frank Rich
This time, Huston has found material that was all but guaranteed to fuel the battiest recesses of his imagination.
TV Guide
Wise Blood, an unusual mixture of comedy, tragedy, satire and horror, is an uningratiating but haunting work.
Variety
Variety Staff
John Huston, with uncluttered direction and expert handling of actors, has fashioned a disturbing tale of the fringe side of overzealous religious preachers in the deep South.
Movie Metropolis
Christopher Long
I dont have to run away from anything cause I dont believe in anything!
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
strange, sub-Coen Brothers caricature that, especially when underscored with Alex North's deliberately hammy hillbilly music, never amounts to much more than a condescending tragicomic satire of spiritual emptiness
Film Threat
Matthew Sorrento
Huston stays true to the novel's events but draws from the story all the black comedy he can find. We are in strange territory.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Any film that features both Harry Dean Stanton and Ned Beatty as scam artists and its tale about religious hypocrisy borders on madness, is one not to be missed.
Filmcritic.com
Chris Cabin
perhaps the most ballistic of Huston's late-period films
Slant Magazine
Bill Weber
Huston's Wise Blood is a sharp, busy canvas that, like a man with a good car, doesn't need to be justified.
Spirituality & Practice
Mary Ann Brussat
Wise Blood is one of the best realized religious drama in many a moon.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
One of John Huston's most original, most stunning movies.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Disturbing and grim in its portraits, Wise Blood is nevertheless marvelous storytelling and its performances are virtually divine.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Along with The Man Who Would Be King and The Dead, this is arguably John Huston's best literary adaptation, and conceivably his very best film.
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