The read
Critics rate it 15 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 85% of the 616 1970s comedy movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.
Ratings
IMDb6.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes89%
Metacritic84/100
Critics rate it 15 points higher than audiences do.
113 audience votes
Key crew
- Benedict FitzgeraldScreenplay
- John HustonDirector
- Michael FitzgeraldScreenplay
- Alex NorthOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Brad DourifHazel Motes
- Dan ShorEnoch Emory
- Amy WrightSabbath Lily
- Harry Dean StantonAsa Hawks
- Mary Nell SantacroceLandlady
- Ned BeattyHoover Shoates
- John HustonGrandfather
- William HickeyPreacher
- J.L. ParkerKarl
- Marvin SappRaymond
- Richard EarleJakob Winslow
- Herb KossoverJacob Wood
Stills
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Themes
based on novel or booksouthern usachristianityredemptionpreacherblindness
The Best Movies of 1979
Wise Blood is #26 of 60
