A married couple builds a broadcasting empire from nothing in this 2021 drama, set against the rise of American televangelism. Michael Showalter directs a decades-spanning account of ambition, faith, and spectacle.
What is The Eyes about?
Starting with next to nothing, Tammy Faye and Jim Bakker build a religious broadcasting network that eventually becomes the largest of its kind, adding a theme park to their growing enterprise along the way. Across the 1970s and into the 1980s, the pair are embraced by followers drawn to a message built around love, acceptance, and the promise of prosperity. The film tracks that ascent, following two ordinary evangelists as their audience, their ambitions, and their public profile all grow at once. Jessica Chastain leads a cast built around the two central figures, with Andrew Garfield opposite her, in a story that spans roughly two decades of American religious media.
About the cast
The ensemble surrounding the two leads includes Cherry Jones, Vincent D'Onofrio, Mark Wystrach, Sam Jaeger, Louis Cancelmi, and Gabriel Olds, filling out the world of preachers, producers, and broadcasters around the central couple. Over a 126-minute runtime, the film has room to sit with its supporting figures rather than rushing past them.
Context & significance
The Eyes of Tammy Faye arrives from the United States and situates its story squarely within the growth of televised ministry in the 1970s and 80s, a period when religious broadcasting moved from local pulpits to national networks and, eventually, theme parks. Director Michael Showalter frames that expansion as both a personal and a media story, tracking how a couple's public image was built, marketed, and ultimately tested. The genre mix of drama and history places the film alongside other period studies of American public figures, with the broadcasting industry itself functioning almost as a character.
Watching The Eyes on Ktime
The Eyes of Tammy Faye is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so viewers can follow the film's dialogue-heavy scenes in Farsi. As with the rest of the K-Time catalogue, the page itself is free to browse; watching requires only a free account login, and the interface itself is built around a Farsi-first viewing experience for the Iranian diaspora.