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Wise Blood
Directed by
John Huston
PG
1979
1h 46m
Drama
,
Comedy
6.9
88%
74%
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Fresh out of the army, Hazel Motes attempts to open the first Church Without Christ in the small town of Taulkinham.
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Cast of Wise Blood
Brad Dourif
Hazel Motes
Dan Shor
Enoch Emory
Amy Wright
Sabbath Lily
Harry Dean Stanton
Asa Hawks
Mary Nell Santacroce
Landlady
Ned Beatty
Hoover Shoates
John Huston
Grandfather
William Hickey
Preacher
J.L. Parker
Karl
Marvin Sapp
Raymond
Richard Earle
Jakob Winslow
Herb Kossover
Jacob Wood
Betty Lou Groover
Leora Watts
John Tyndall
Loki Martinson
Gillaaron Houck
Stranger #1
Philip Mixer
Stranger #2
Sharon Johnson
Stranger #3
Joe Dorsey
Stranger #4
Stratton Leopold
Depressed Human
Leonard Holmes
Stranger #5
Daniel Albright
Stranger #6
Tommy Alson
Young Man
Harold Horne
Stranger #7
Jim Barbee
Slade
Gene Howard
Little Boy
Raymond Foskey
Salesman
Vicky Dyer
Little Girl
Elijah Perry
Jerry Bob Jackson
Ken Flower
Ken Guy
Gladys Hill
Lisa Martinson
Ray Wilkes
Slade Bob Jackson
Dan Albright
Policeman
Allan A. Apone
Gonga the Gorilla (uncredited)
Don Chambers
Street Listener (uncredited)
William Finley
Man (uncredited)
Bart Russell
Man in the Street (uncredited)
Wise Blood Reviews
Slant Magazine
Bill Weber
Huston's Wise Blood is a sharp, busy canvas that, like a man with a good car, doesn't need to be justified.
Film Threat
Matthew Sorrento
Huston stays true to the novel's events but draws from the story all the black comedy he can find. We are in strange territory.
Filmcritic.com
Chris Cabin
perhaps the most ballistic of Huston's late-period films
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Any film that features both Harry Dean Stanton and Ned Beatty as scam artists and its tale about religious hypocrisy borders on madness, is one not to be missed.
Movie Metropolis
Christopher Long
I dont have to run away from anything cause I dont believe in anything!
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
strange, sub-Coen Brothers caricature that, especially when underscored with Alex North's deliberately hammy hillbilly music, never amounts to much more than a condescending tragicomic satire of spiritual emptiness
TIME Magazine
Frank Rich
This time, Huston has found material that was all but guaranteed to fuel the battiest recesses of his imagination.
Variety
Variety Staff
John Huston, with uncluttered direction and expert handling of actors, has fashioned a disturbing tale of the fringe side of overzealous religious preachers in the deep South.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
One of John Huston's most original, most stunning movies.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Disturbing and grim in its portraits, Wise Blood is nevertheless marvelous storytelling and its performances are virtually divine.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Along with The Man Who Would Be King and The Dead, this is arguably John Huston's best literary adaptation, and conceivably his very best film.
New West/California
Stephen Farber
Wise Blood is as sly and nimble as some of the late films of Bunuel. Huston is now 73, so this is an old man's film, but it has a vigor and audacity that most young directors should envy.
Spirituality & Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Wise Blood is one of the best realized religious drama in many a moon.
Washington Blade
Tom Huhn
Every shot in the film seems efficient and economical: clever and skillful in most cases, but always precise. [It] leaves the viewer amazed, puzzled, but finally satisfied. The film is ultimately honest at a time when that quality seems rarer and rarer.
TV Guide
Wise Blood, an unusual mixture of comedy, tragedy, satire and horror, is an uningratiating but haunting work.
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