Salvation!
| Salvation! | |
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 Theatrical release poster |
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| Directed by | Beth B. |
| Produced by | Beth B. |
| Written by | Beth B. Tom Robinson |
| Starring | Stephen McHattie Dominique Davalos Exene Cervenka Viggo Mortensen Rockets Redglare |
| Music by | New Order |
| Cinematography | Francis Kenny |
| Editing by | Elizabeth Kling |
| Distributed by | Circle Films |
| Release date(s) | 1987 |
| Running time | 80 min |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
Salvation! is a 1987 film by Beth B., starring Viggo Mortensen, Exene Cervenka and Stephen McHattie. The film is a spoof of televangelism released right after the real-life Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart scandals.
[edit] Plot
McHattie plays Reverend Randall, a Staten Island-based televangelist who has been bilking his flock and secretly watches pornography while he is rehearsing his sermons in his stately home. Cervenka plays Rhonda Stample, a born again Christian. After Rhonda's non-believer husband , Jerome (Viggo Mortensen), loses his factory job, he and two cousins enlist Rhonda in a plot to entrap Rev. Randall in a sex scandal and blackmail him.
The film's theme music is by New Order, who also contributed a further four original pieces to the soundtrack including "Touched by the Hand of God".
Tagline: SEX. POWER. MONEY. All in the name of God
- This film is only available on VHS.
[edit] Legacy
Exene Cervenka and Viggo Mortensen met on the film's set in 1986, and they married on July 8, 1987. On January 28, 1988, Cervenka gave birth to her only child, Henry Blake Mortensen. Mortensen and Cervenka separated in 1992, and were divorced in 1997.
