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Jan 21, 2004 · Ted Baehr, founder of the Christian Film and Television Commission ministry, says that the new Hollywood movie SAVED! is a sad, bigoted, anti-Christian movie that mocks the Christian faith. “SAVED! is a hateful, politically correct movie,” Dr. Baehr declared.
Parents need to know that Saved! is a 2004 satirical comedy in which Jena Malone plays a Christian girl attending a fundamentalist high school whose life is turned upside down when she becomes pregnant. While the movie satirizes the hypocrisy of Christians too rigidly dogmatic to truly apply Christian ideals…
- Jena Malone, Macaulay Culkin, Mandy Moore
- Brian Dannelly
- MGM/UA
May 28, 2004 · By the end of the movie, mainstream Christian values have not been overthrown, but demonstrated and embraced. Those who think Christianity is just a matter of enforcing their rulebook have been, well, enlightened. And that all of this takes place in a sassy and smart teenage comedy is, well, a miracle.
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Steven Isaac. Movie Review. “ Saved! is like those monster vampire high school kind of movies, only here the monsters are Jesus-freak teenagers.” —producer Michael Stipe (of R.E.M. fame) The ringleader of the Saved!
- Brian Dannelly
Jan 21, 2004 · 61% 148 Reviews Tomatometer 78% 100,000+ Ratings Audience Score Mary (Jena Malone) is a devout girl at a Christian high school, dating Dean (Chad Faust). But her perfect world begins to fall...
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- Brian Dannelly
- PG-13
- Jena Malone
Jun 11, 2004 · Directed by Brian Dannelly. With Jena Malone, Mandy Moore, Macaulay Culkin, Patrick Fugit. When a girl attending a Christian high school becomes pregnant, all of her former friends turn on her and she is ostracized and demonized.
While Berardinelli is slamming this movie as anti-Christian, claiming 'Saved! treats religion as a disease, not a life choice', the (often overly positive) Ebert concludes that 'by the end of the movie, mainstream Christian values have not been overthrown, but demonstrated and embraced'.
