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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: SONY PICTURES HOME ENT
EAN: 0043396292543
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: SONY PICTURES
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledSpanishSubtitled
Manufacturer: SONY PICTURES
MPN: 29254
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: SONY PICTURES
Region Code: 99
Release Date: April 07, 2009
Running Time: 116 minutes
Studio: SONY PICTURES
Theatrical Release Date: 2009
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
A FARMER MOVES HIS FAMILY TO SOUTH AFRICA & SUFFERS A SERIES OF SEEMINGLY INSURMOUNTABLE LOSSES. THROUGH UNLIKELY FRIENDSHIPS & MUCH NEEDED DIVINE INTERVENTION, HE DISCOVERS HIS LIFE'S TRUE PURPOSE & IT SUSTAINS HIS UNWAVERING BELIEF IN THE POWER OF FAITH. BASED ON A TRUE STORY.
Amazon.com:
The growing genre of Christian cinema adds to its flock Faith Like Potatoes, based on the book of the same name about a real-life South African farmer named Angus Buchan. Buchan accepted Jesus at a moment of crisis and began experiencing miracles, ranging from sudden rain putting out a wildfire to reviving a woman struck by lightning. The movie follows Buchan (played by Frank Rautenbach, star of a South African soap opera) from his failed farm in Zambia to his rise as a lay evangelist, delivering a sermon in a massive South African stadium. He begins as a sullen, short-tempered man, quick to lash out at his wife (the lovely Jeanne Wilhelm) and the native Zulu workers on his struggling farm. But as his life takes on the purpose of spreading the Word, Buchan finds personal peace (though he also faces personal tragedies). Faith Like Potatoes is squarely aimed at Christian viewers; its straightforward take on Christianity is unlikely to persuade skeptics. Despite the intriguing and (for an American audience) exotic locale, the problems Buchan faces (overwork, an emotionally remote marriage) feel bland and generic. Though Buchan clearly disapproves of a snide British farmer's colonialist contempt for the Zulus, the movie's own attitude towards them is paternalistic at best. Still, despite baldly expository dialogue, Faith Like Potatoes does have a steady forward momentum to its story, and there's little question that the right audience will find its message comforting and compelling. --Bret Fetzer
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My family really enjoyed this movie. It is very well made and the acting is great.
Very inspiring. The only problem is that the actors are sometimes a little hard to understand because of their accent, but this did not interfere with being able to follow the story. Highly recommended! Faith building!!
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Great movie from start to finish, Producing and directing was excellent and acting was top notch.
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My entire family enjoyed this movie. SO nice to sit and watch a movie with my children and not hear foul language or see any suggestive material.
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This was a great, moving story. I cried several times. At first, I wasn't sure where it was going, but once we got into the story, I couldn't walk away and was amazed at how one man's life affected so many in such a wonderful way.
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This true story is an inspiration to the life that we can all be living with real a faith in God. The testimony of Angus and his family is proof of the goodness of God and His faithfulness to those who love Him.
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