Storme Wood's debut feature film Paradise Recovered tackles secular freedom and spiritual fulfillment in the story of a young woman forced into finding herself.
Esther (Heather del Rio) is a young woman in service to the local pastor of a fringe Christian group. She's obedient and accepting of the life her church has planned for her until an unexpected encounter leaves her cast out into the world without a home, spiritual or otherwise. When Gabriel (Dane Seth Hurlburt) and his roommate take her in, they take it upon themselves to help Esther adjust to her newfound and unwanted freedom.
Andie Redwine's script could easily have been cliché-ridden, and while there are stereotypical characters, the focus is on Esther, and her self-doubts and much as her self-discovery and she tries to find balance between the world she used to know and her predetermined path and the greater world where...
Esther (Heather del Rio) is a young woman in service to the local pastor of a fringe Christian group. She's obedient and accepting of the life her church has planned for her until an unexpected encounter leaves her cast out into the world without a home, spiritual or otherwise. When Gabriel (Dane Seth Hurlburt) and his roommate take her in, they take it upon themselves to help Esther adjust to her newfound and unwanted freedom.
Andie Redwine's script could easily have been cliché-ridden, and while there are stereotypical characters, the focus is on Esther, and her self-doubts and much as her self-discovery and she tries to find balance between the world she used to know and her predetermined path and the greater world where...
- 10/22/2010
- by Jenn Brown
- Slackerwood
Director: Storme Wood Writer: Andie Redwine Starring: Andrew Sensenig, Austin Chittim, Dane Hurlburt, Heather Del Rio, Jim Aabear, Marina Seitsinger, Oliver Luke, Richard Dillard, Wendy Zavaleta Esther (Heather del Rio), a young Jesus-loving God-fearing Christian woman donning an over-sized frumpy and shapeless dress, takes a job at a health food store owned by Gabriel (Dane Seth Hurlburt), who is for all intents and purposes a left-wing Godless bohemian -- as they say, desperation makes strange bed-fellows. (“The point on the ideological spectrum where far-left bohemians and right-wing fundamentalists meet is a health food store.”) Esther also works as an assistant for David Sawyer (Andrew Sensenig) -- the local preacher for Warren F. Vanderbilt's Prophetic Watchman Ministries, a very prohibitive Christian sect -- and his family. When David’s son Phillip (Austin Chittim) returns home from Vanderbilt's Kingdom Bible College after being hand-picked by Vanderbilt to become a minister, Phillip and...
- 10/18/2010
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
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