To Save a Life is a Christian film focusing on high school basketball star Jake Taylor, played by Randy Wayne. He and his best friend Roger Dawson (Robert Bailey, Jr.) have been friends since childhood, but he and Jake grow apart as Jake spends more time with his new girlfriend Amy. By their senior year, Jake’s the most popular guy in school, is at all the best parties, and is headed to Louisville on a basketball scholarship. Roger is constantly picked on and is generally unnoticed. Roger causes an incident at school and it causes Jake to look at his life and question his goals and priorities. Jake decides to start going to church and cut out a lot of the partying, but he gets opposition from his friends, girlfriend, and father. Jake also begins hanging out with the kids that he attends church with, which causes his social standing to drop.
- 1/31/2010
- by seaberry
- FusedFilm
Faith-based movies that find success in mainstream Hollywood are few and far between. For every Passion of the Christ and Fireproof, there are a dozen or so films which never get a shot at being shown nationally in theaters. So it’s difficult to predict the outcome for To Save a Life, a story focused on two friends who face the harsh realities of high school cliques, the dramatic, downward spiral of someone who soon feels like an outcast, and how a single act can change the lives of many. And yet, Life made it to the big screen, so that hurdle alone has already been jumped.
Right away I was intrigued by the film’s PG-13 rating. This is very rare for a movie promoted on Christian radio stations, so I was curious how the film would balance the line of appealing to as wide an audience as possible while maintaining a Christian basis.
Right away I was intrigued by the film’s PG-13 rating. This is very rare for a movie promoted on Christian radio stations, so I was curious how the film would balance the line of appealing to as wide an audience as possible while maintaining a Christian basis.
- 1/29/2010
- by Natasha Hurt
- ReelLoop.com
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