--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote:
>
> On 12/22/2011 01:17 PM, turquoiseb wrote:
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu<noozguru@> wrote:
> > > I was hoping that "Enlightened" might be FFL on TV which
> > > would make for either a great comedy or an insane thriller.
> > > But that didn't happen.
> >
> > Have no fear. Watch "Salvation Boulevard" instead.
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYiYHfciJwE
> >
> > Greg Kennear plays Carl, a former Deadhead who now
> > is a member of a megachurch led by Pastor Dan (Pierce
> > Brosnan). All goes well (if you can call a boring,
> > brainwashed life "going well") until Pastor Dan
> > accidentally shoots the atheist author he was just
> > debating, and then decides to blame it all on Carl.
> >
> > The cult language is Christian, not Neo-Hindu, but
> > the rap is the same and the mindset is the same. To
> > hear the church members both lay into Carl and
> > defend Pastor Dan -- even the ones who know that
> > he did the shooting -- is in many ways a Fairfield
> > Life deja vu experience...and interestingly it's
> > both a comedy *and* an insane thriller. :-) You'd
> > probably like it. Cool performances by Jennifer
> > Connolly and Marisa Tomei, too.
>
> It hasn't released on DVD in the US yet. A release list shows
> "undecided" for all retail and rental channels. I was able to put a
> "save" on Netflix though. Funny because it had summer release in
> the US. The IMDB message board had threads like "why does
> Hollywood always dump on Christians and never Muslims!" Oh boy.
Sounds like something right out of the movie. :-)
I initially heard it talked about after its showing
at Sundance. It's not great, but it's amusing. Pierce
Brosnan does an admirable impression of a bat shit
crazy person.
> Now for something much closer to FFL try the 1993 British
> mini-series "Buddha of Suburbia" with Naveen Andrews ("Lost").
> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105963/
>
> What is not mentioned in the synopsis is Naveen's character's
> father played by Roshan Seth is an accountant who plays "guru"
> to gullible westerners.
That sounds interesting. I'll look for it.
