A once-famous child actor gets a shot at redemption in the last place he expects in The Resurrection of Gavin Stone, Dallas Jenkins' 2017 comedy-drama.
What is The Resurrection of Gavin Stone about?
Gavin Stone's career peaked before he was old enough to drive, and years later he's a washed-up former child star with a record and a court order for community service. The judge sends him to the nearest option: a local megachurch gearing up for its elaborate annual Passion Play. To land the lead role of Jesus and use it as a stepping stone back into the spotlight, Gavin fakes his way into the congregation, playing the part of a believer as convincingly as he hopes to play the part on stage. The trouble is, faking it gets harder the longer he stays; the community around him, and the role itself, start pulling him toward something he never planned on taking seriously. What was meant to be a shortcut back to his old life quietly turns into a reckoning with who he actually wants to be.
About the cast
Brett Dalton plays Gavin Stone, with Neil Flynn and Anjelah Johnson-Reyes as key figures in the church community around him. D. B. Sweeney, Christopher Maleki, Michael Hickenbottom, Nicole Astra and Emily Eruraviel round out the supporting cast.
Context & significance
Director Dallas Jenkins builds the film around the community and rehearsal culture of an American megachurch's Passion Play, a setting rarely used for straight comedy. The premise leans on the gap between performance and belief, a washed-up actor treating faith as a role to play, and lets that gap narrow over the course of the story rather than resolving it in a single scene.
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