Sharon (Mimi Rogers) was lost. Searching for meaning in the pleasures of the flesh left her empty and suicidal. She finds God and becomes a born-again Christian, taking a fellow searcher, Randy (David Duchovny), with her into a life of religious contentment.
Sharon and Randy live the perfect life of a Christian married couple, they have a daughter and everything is right with the world until Randy is killed by a disgruntled office drone. Sharon and her daughter fall in with an end-times cult that says the Rapture is coming. She takes her daughter to the desert and waits for the end.
Does the end come? Doesn't it always? I don't want to reveal the ending, but what makes the film great is that it takes its theology seriously.
The movie is really a character study of Sharon, a woman who feels empty and tries to fill that void with the usual suspects of sex, drugs and alcohol before turning to the biggest suspect of all. More questions than answers: The film is far from perfect. Writer-director Michael Tolkin is not exactly a born filmmaker, but the ideas in the movie are excellent.
Is Sharon's downfall the sin of pride? Is her virtue sticking to principle? Is God a blind bureaucrat only interested in those who follow the rules?
The ending is open to interpretation, but it will definitely leave you talking. Recommended for: Anyone interested in an honest religious debate. Starring: Rogers and Duchovny.
Sharon (Mimi Rogers) was lost.
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