Video Capsule Review

Jesus' Son (2001)

Billy Crudup, Samantha Morton

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Release Date: Jun 16, 2000; Rated: R; Video Release Date: Jan 30, 2001; Genre: Drama; With: Billy Crudup and Samantha Morton; Distributor: Lions Gate Films

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By Scott Brown

Scott Brown

Scott Brown is a senior writer for EW and a frequent contributor to National Public Radio -- he has the tote bag to prove it

Drug flicks and Jesus allegories are tough enough to pull off on their own; Jesus' Son, Alison Maclean's junkie odyssey, 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.

Posted Sep 26, 2000

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