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Rapture (1991)
starring: Mimi Rogers, Darwyn Carson, Patrick Bauchau, Marvin Elkins, David Duchovny
directed by: Michael Tolkin

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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780780607187
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 078060718X
Label: New Line Home Video
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Line Home Video
Release Date: September 01, 1998
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 16849
Studio: New Line Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: October 04, 1991

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Amazon.com:
Once upon a time, in the 1980s and early 1990s, American independent movies did not seek to merely ape Hollywood formulas. They were more than just feature-length resumes for shrewd, enterprising filmmakers who had nothing to say, but dreamed of saying it with a big-studio budget. Back then, independent films provided a different kind of movie experience; they challenged and provoked audiences--and none more so than 1991's The Rapture, written and directed by Michael Tolkin, the man who wrote the screenplay for The Player, Robert Altman's scathing anti-Hollywood comedy. Mimi Rogers plays Sharon, a lost soul who gives up her hedonistic life of sex and drugs when she finds God and becomes a fundamentalist Christian fanatic. Her pilgrim's progress, presented in a deadpan, nonjudgmental style, culminates quite literally in the title event--the Second Coming, the Apocalypse, the end of the world, or whatever you want to call it. Rogers's fearless performance becomes all the more provocative when you recall that the actress is a lifelong member of the Church of Scientology. The Rapture is a mind-boggling, wildly ambitious movie that's open to myriad interpretations. But no matter what you make of it, it's sure to leave you engaged and shaken. --Jim Emerson

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Great commentary track
Surprising and radical -- brave filmmaking. But buy this disc for the commentary track. Director Michael Tolkin, actors David Duchovny and Mimi Rogers are all together in one location discussing the film, while actor Patrick Bauchau's comments are occasionally dubbed in (at a much lower volume). Duchovny, an unknown when he made this film, makes some hilarious comments about a particular nude shot that wound up on the Internet. Rogers comes off as intelligent and thoughtful and you can tell the two ... Read More

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- An hallucinatory journey into the nature of belief
If you are able to put aside your religious beliefs (or lack thereof) and watch this extraordinary movie for the unabashed pleasure of the acting and cinematic technique, you will be numbed by the hallucinatory potency of the narrative. Not since Roman Polanski's Repulsion has a film so authoritatively rendered the psychology of extreme belief, and the gradual, progressive nature of the process one undergoes as they either descend into madness or experience epiphany (or both), depending upon the viewer's ... Read More

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- I agree...
Having seen this movie several years ago, I have to say the reviewers on this site have said it all...I have nothing to add since they wrote almost precisely what I would have. I very much recommend this film and applaud the acting of the characters, especially Mimi Rogers.

Rating:

- Thought Provoking
I saw this movie when it came out in the 90's and liked it then. I watched it again tonight, some fifteen years later and it still holds up. The subject matter of Christianity certainly seems to offend or provoke many of the reviewers, but I didn't watch it to find religion or to save my soul. I watched it because I like movies that aren't mainstream and require some thought. Mimi Rogers does a wonderful job as a lost soul who is looking for a deeper meaning to her life and finds it in God. From there ... Read More

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- Review for Fundy
This is unquestionabley a good film. It is relatively independent and represents that aesthetic and its time (early 90's). I will not go into depth here, as I think better reviews already exist. I write here just for the fundamentalist Christians looking at this film.

This is a film about contemporary Christianity. There are few films available that even begin to attempt to take on this notion. The subject matter is adult. The characters are complex, fairly real (in an urban sense at least) and ... Read More

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