Wise Blood

6.4

1979

106 mins

ComedyDrama

A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.

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God's Not Dead

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I Can Only Imagine

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