Video Review

Video Review: 'Jesus's Son'

Reviewed by Scott Brown | Sep 29, 2000
EW's GRADE
A-

Details Movie Rated: R; Genre: Drama

Drug flicks and Jesus allegories are tough enough to pull off on their own; Alison Maclean's junkie odyssey Jesus's Son is both. Good thing she landed the sublime Crudup to play the lead, a '70s-era drifter (identified only as F---head) who breezes Gumpishly in and out of peoples' lives. Maclean goes easy on the needle shtick and shepherds FH towards an epiphany that's as credible as it is brilliantly staged. A-

Originally posted Sep 29, 2000 Published in issue #561 Sep 29, 2000 Order article reprints

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