To Save a Life (Blu-ray) PG-13
Some people are just dying to be heard.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 2 hours, 9 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 3, 2010
- Originally Released: 2010
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Sean Michael Afable, Robert Bailey, Jr., Steven Crowder, Bubba Lewis, Joshua Weigel, Kim Hidalgo, Randy Wayne & Deja Kreutzberg | |
Directed by | Bryan Baugh | |
Screenwriting by | Jim Britts | |
Composition by | Timothy Michael Wynn | |
Director of Photography: | C. Clifford Jones |
Entertainment Reviews:
Hints at becoming a thoughtful portrait of a teen's spiritual crisis, then abandons all narrative integrity to hit its church-mandated marks.
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Variety
The teen drama 'To Save a Life,' nicely directed by Brian Baugh from a script by Jim Britts, manages to be appealing, poignant and inspiring in ways that are gentle and quite real.
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 1.5/4 --
One of the biggest problems in most Christian genre movies is their lack of edge, a reluctance on the part of the filmmakers to show ugly reality.
Orlando Sentinel
Rating: 2/4 --
What's worthy about "To Save A Life" comes purely from its nutritional value, and if a teenager becomes a more empathetic person as a result of seeing it, then it's worth it for him. A lot of his friends, though, might be too bored to get to the redemptio
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Capital Times (Madison, WI)
Whether or not youth audiences will grasp the full human, religious, spiritual and moral landscape or implications of what [To Save a Life] is saying and what Jake is seeking, ample resources are available for reflection and reinforcement.
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National Catholic Reporter
Rating: 3.5/5 --
This is a deftly acted, generally absorbing cautionary tale with wider allure than its faith-based label may imply.
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Los Angeles Times
Rating: 2.5/10 --
Miles ahead in terms of production values and an avoidance of overt proselytizing. It'll likely be an enormous hit with the evangelical communities at which it's targeted. That doesn't save it from being an utter failure outside that narrow context.
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NPR
Product Description:
Advertised by its distributor as a successor to such theatrically released religious dramas as FACING THE GIANTS (2006) and FIREPROOF (2008) -- though it came from a completely different production team -- this inspirational saga recounts the story of Jake Taylor (Randy Wayne), a well-rounded, Middle American teen who seems to have everything going for him, his world in perfect balance. But when an unexpected tragedy strikes in the form of a childhood friend's death, Jake suddenly begins to question everything he had long taken for granted, and he's soon forced to make a decision that will permanently change his future.