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Jesus freak is a term arising from the late 1960s and early 1970s counterculture and is incorrectly used as a pejorative for those involved in the Jesus movement. As Tom Wolfe illustrates in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, the term "freak" with a preceding qualifier was a strictly neutral term and described any counter-culture member with a specific interest in a given subject; hence "acid freak" "Jesus freak." The term "freak" was in common enough currency that Hunter S. Thompson's failed bid for sheriff of Aspen, Colorado was as a member of the "Freak Power" party. However, many later members of the movement, misunderstanding the counter-cultural roots believed the term to be negative, and co-opted and embraced the term, and its usage broadened to describe a Christian subculture throughout the hippie and back-to-the-land movements that focused on universal love and pacifism, and relished the radical nature of Jesus' message. Jesus freaks often carried and distributed copies of the "Good News for Modern Man," a 1966 translation of the New Testament written in modern English. In Australia, and other countries, the term Jesus freak, along with Bible basher, is still used in a derogatory manner. In Germany, there is a Christian youth culture, also called Jesus Freaks, that claims to have its roots in the American movement.
Jesus ( /ˈdʒiːzəs/; Greek: Ἰησοῦς; 7–2 BC/BCE to 30–36 AD/CE), also referred to as Jesus Christ or simply Christ, is the central figure of Christianity and most Christian denominations venerate him as God the Son incarnated. In Islam, Jesus (in Arabic: عيسى in Islamic usage, commonly transliterated as Isa) is considered one of God's important prophets.
Most modern historians agree that Jesus existed and was a Jewish teacher from Galilee in Roman Judaea, who was baptized by John the Baptist, and was crucified in Jerusalem on the orders of the Roman Prefect, Pontius Pilate. Scholars have offered competing descriptions and portraits of Jesus, which at times share a number of overlapping attributes, such as a rabbi, a charismatic healer, the leader of an apocalyptic movement, a self-described Messiah, a sage and philosopher, or a social reformer who preached of the "Kingdom of God" as a means for personal and egalitarian social transformation. Scholars have correlated the New Testament accounts with non-Christian historical records to arrive at an estimated chronology of Jesus' life.
Actors: Michael Epp (actor), A.J. Locascio (actor), A.J. Locascio (producer), Kayla Lian (actress), Jim Tripp (producer), Jim Tripp (writer), Jim Tripp (director), Jim Tripp (editor), Adam Gutbezahl (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Noel Gugliemi (actor), Larry Cedar (actor), Torrence Hall (miscellaneous crew), Philip Baker Hall (actor), Gary Kasper (actor), Mike Tristano (miscellaneous crew), French Stewart (actor), Edward L. Plumb (producer), Amy Hill (actress), Bill Cobbs (actor), Starletta DuPois (actress), Keith MacKechnie (actor), Alan Ari Lazar (composer), Cody Smith (miscellaneous crew), Jim Thalman (actor),
Plot: A blighted Los Angeles in 2009. Arthur is recently widowed, his savings wiped out by his wife's illness. Their only son is long dead. Alone, Arthur adopts and is adopted by a duckling he names Joe. Saved from suicide, Arthur's life becomes caring for Joe and keeping clean a pond on land near his son's memorial tree. Homelessness awaits Arthur, and although he experiences a great deal of unkindness - from a bus driver, motorists, and animal control officers - he also offers and finds kindness. The pond drained, Arthur and Joe head west on a picaresque journey. Is there room for angels in Los Angeles?
Keywords: accent, alcoholics-anonymous, animal-control-worker, apartment, ashes, asian, backpack, bathroom, blind-man, blindnessActors: Bryce Menzies (producer), Jo Weeks (miscellaneous crew), Heath Ledger (actor), Bryce Menzies (miscellaneous crew), Bryan Brown (actor), David Field (actor), Rose Byrne (actress), Richard Carter (actor), Fiona Searson (miscellaneous crew), Jason Mack (miscellaneous crew), Kieran Darcy-Smith (actor), Steven Vidler (actor), Jerome Ehlers (actor), Tony Gibbs (miscellaneous crew), Cezary Skubiszewski (composer),
Plot: A 19 year old (Heath Ledger) finds himself in debt to a local gangster (Bryan Brown) when some gang loot disappears and sets him on the run from thugs. Meanwhile two street kids start a shopping spree when they find the missing money. Rose Byrne co-stars as a country girl, who Ledger starts a romance on his trip.
Keywords: airport, allegory, animated-opening-credits, apology, australia, auto-repair, baby, bank-robbery, bar, bare-fisted-fightActors: Paul Chihara (composer), Arthur Penn (director), Penn Jillette (writer), Teller (actor), Teller (writer), Arthur Penn (producer), Jaime Tirelli (actor), Robert LaSardo (actor), Reg E. Cathey (actor), Tom Sizemore (actor), Paul Calderon (actor), Penn Jillette (actor), Jon Cryer (actor), Al Cerullo (miscellaneous crew), Eva Z. Cabrera (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Penn & Teller enjoy playing jokes on each other. When Penn says on an interview show that he wishes he has someone threatening his life so that he "wouldn't sweat the small stuff," each of them begins a series of pranks on the other to suggest a real threat. Then they find that a real psychopath is interested in them.
Keywords: actor-playing-himself, air-rage, airport, animal-skin-clothing, arm-in-cast, atheist, atlantic-city, atlantic-city-new-jersey, attempted-murder, bagelActors: Michael Caulfield (director), Bill Gooley (miscellaneous crew), Rob Steele (actor), Kris McQuade (actress), Robyn Nevin (actress), Lewis Fitz-Gerald (actor), Maurie Fields (actor), Anne Haddy (actress), Don Reid (actor), Phillip Adams (producer), Wyn Roberts (actor), Gillian Jones (actress), Paul Rawson (actor), Sue Milliken (producer), Carolynne Cunningham (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Fighting Back will bring you face-to-face with the unpleasant reality and disruptive consequences of a deeply disturbed young mind. A mind in adolescent turmoil; in rebellious conflict with society - unsure of it's direction, it's purpose, it's future. A destructive mind that wrecks havoc whichever way it turns. Young Paul Smith gives a remarkable performance as the trouble teen who finally gets peace in the relationship with his teacher. Great Australian film.
Keywords: australia, based-on-novel, cross-cultural-relationship, ghetto, independent-film, journalism, police-officer, racism, rampage, revengeActors: Van Johnson (actor), Ava Gardner (actress), John Stocker (actor), Gary Reineke (actor), William Shatner (actor), Jackie Burroughs (actress), Maury Chaykin (actor), Hal Holbrook (actor), William Marquez (actor), Michael Fairman (actor), Michael J. Reynolds (actor), Michael Kane (actor), Richard Fitzpatrick (actor), Paul Zaza (composer), George Mendeluk (producer),
Plot: A South American quasi-revolutionary/guerilla/terrorist and a misled, admiring girl compatriot manage to kidnap the U.S. President during a diplomatic visit to Toronto. With a nondescript armored truck, crudely yet somehow elaborately rigged with high explosives (and the President trapped inside), the two terrorists keep the Secret Service at bay until in the end, Assanti is killed and Shatner has to find a way into the truck anyway.
Keywords: armored-car, based-on-novel, booby-trap, bribery, cia, explosive, handcuffs, hostage, husband-wife-relationship, independent-filmActors: Dolores Rubin (miscellaneous crew), Corey Burton (miscellaneous crew), Anne Lockhart (actress), Burt Young (actor), Kris Kristofferson (actor), Sam Peckinpah (director), Whitey Hughes (actor), Jorge Russek (actor), Seymour Cassel (actor), Spec O'Donnell (actor), Bill Coontz (actor), Ernest Borgnine (actor), Sam Peckinpah (actor), Charles A. Tamburro (miscellaneous crew), Ali MacGraw (actress),
Plot: While driving through the Arizona desert, Albuquerque based independent trucker Martin Penwald - who goes by the handle "Rubber Duck" - along with his fellow truckers "Pig Pen" and "Spider Mike", are entrapped by unscrupulous Sheriff Lyle "Cottonmouth" Wallace using a key tool of the trucker's trade, the citizens' band (CB) radio. Rubber Duck and Cottonmouth have a long, antagonistic history. When this encounter later escalates into a more physical one as Cottonmouth threatens Spider Mike, a man who just wants to get home to his pregnant wife, Rubber Duck and other the truckers involved, including Spider Mike, Pig Pen and "Widow Woman", go on the run, figuring the best thing to do being to head to New Mexico to avoid prosecution. Along for the ride is Melissa, a beautiful photographer who just wanted a ride to the airport. As news of what happened spreads over the CB airwaves, other truckers join their convoy as a show of support. Cottonmouth rallies other law enforcement officers throughout the southwest, they who soon learn that stopping Rubber Duck, the face of the now highly public standoff, is not as easy as shooting him and the truck due to his highly explosive cargo. As the standoff escalates, New Mexico Governor Jerry Haskins joins the fray, he who sees the strong public support for the truckers being something on which he can capitalize politically.
Keywords: american-southwest, americana, automobile, bad-guy, based-on-song, beating, blackmail, car-accident, cb-radio, chaseActors: Dolores Rubin (miscellaneous crew), Corey Burton (miscellaneous crew), Anne Lockhart (actress), Burt Young (actor), Kris Kristofferson (actor), Sam Peckinpah (director), Whitey Hughes (actor), Jorge Russek (actor), Seymour Cassel (actor), Spec O'Donnell (actor), Bill Coontz (actor), Ernest Borgnine (actor), Sam Peckinpah (actor), Charles A. Tamburro (miscellaneous crew), Ali MacGraw (actress),
Plot: While driving through the Arizona desert, Albuquerque based independent trucker Martin Penwald - who goes by the handle "Rubber Duck" - along with his fellow truckers "Pig Pen" and "Spider Mike", are entrapped by unscrupulous Sheriff Lyle "Cottonmouth" Wallace using a key tool of the trucker's trade, the citizens' band (CB) radio. Rubber Duck and Cottonmouth have a long, antagonistic history. When this encounter later escalates into a more physical one as Cottonmouth threatens Spider Mike, a man who just wants to get home to his pregnant wife, Rubber Duck and other the truckers involved, including Spider Mike, Pig Pen and "Widow Woman", go on the run, figuring the best thing to do being to head to New Mexico to avoid prosecution. Along for the ride is Melissa, a beautiful photographer who just wanted a ride to the airport. As news of what happened spreads over the CB airwaves, other truckers join their convoy as a show of support. Cottonmouth rallies other law enforcement officers throughout the southwest, they who soon learn that stopping Rubber Duck, the face of the now highly public standoff, is not as easy as shooting him and the truck due to his highly explosive cargo. As the standoff escalates, New Mexico Governor Jerry Haskins joins the fray, he who sees the strong public support for the truckers being something on which he can capitalize politically.
Keywords: american-southwest, americana, automobile, bad-guy, based-on-song, beating, blackmail, car-accident, cb-radio, chaseActors: Dolores Rubin (miscellaneous crew), Corey Burton (miscellaneous crew), Anne Lockhart (actress), Burt Young (actor), Kris Kristofferson (actor), Sam Peckinpah (director), Whitey Hughes (actor), Jorge Russek (actor), Seymour Cassel (actor), Spec O'Donnell (actor), Bill Coontz (actor), Ernest Borgnine (actor), Sam Peckinpah (actor), Charles A. Tamburro (miscellaneous crew), Ali MacGraw (actress),
Plot: While driving through the Arizona desert, Albuquerque based independent trucker Martin Penwald - who goes by the handle "Rubber Duck" - along with his fellow truckers "Pig Pen" and "Spider Mike", are entrapped by unscrupulous Sheriff Lyle "Cottonmouth" Wallace using a key tool of the trucker's trade, the citizens' band (CB) radio. Rubber Duck and Cottonmouth have a long, antagonistic history. When this encounter later escalates into a more physical one as Cottonmouth threatens Spider Mike, a man who just wants to get home to his pregnant wife, Rubber Duck and other the truckers involved, including Spider Mike, Pig Pen and "Widow Woman", go on the run, figuring the best thing to do being to head to New Mexico to avoid prosecution. Along for the ride is Melissa, a beautiful photographer who just wanted a ride to the airport. As news of what happened spreads over the CB airwaves, other truckers join their convoy as a show of support. Cottonmouth rallies other law enforcement officers throughout the southwest, they who soon learn that stopping Rubber Duck, the face of the now highly public standoff, is not as easy as shooting him and the truck due to his highly explosive cargo. As the standoff escalates, New Mexico Governor Jerry Haskins joins the fray, he who sees the strong public support for the truckers being something on which he can capitalize politically.
Keywords: american-southwest, americana, automobile, bad-guy, based-on-song, beating, blackmail, car-accident, cb-radio, chaseActors: Thomas Robsahm (actor), Petter Vennerød (actor), Jorunn Kjellsby (actress), Svend Wam (writer), Svend Wam (director), Svend Wam (actor), Erik Hivju (actor), Liv Thorsen (actress), Kjersti Døvigen (actress), Bredo Greve (actor), Margrete Robsahm (miscellaneous crew), Margrete Robsahm (actress), Svein Gundersen (composer), Fred Sassebo (editor), Inger Heldal (actress),
Plot: Lasse & Geir, to drabantbygutter i slutten av tenårene, lager virkelig kvalme på bussen inn til byen. Sjåføren blir nødt til å tilkalle politiet. De blir arrestert, tilbringer natten i cella, slipper ut neste morgen og drar hjem. Geir til sin alkoholiserte mor, Lasse til sin desillusjonerte far som terroriserer hele familien.
Keywords: 1970s, abusive-father, abusive-husband, afro, aggression, alcohol, alcoholic, anarchist, arrest, b-movieStay where you are
Plenty room for both of us
And I don't want you to come any closer
Than you are right now
Because Jesus was a Jesus freak
Jesus was a Jesus freak
Jesus was a Jesus freak
And I'm just looking for a place to
Watch the world from
Watch the world from
Watch the world from
Million miles of sand
And a trillion miles of water
And you might make me go against my will, but you'll
Never make me come
Because Jesus was a Jesus freak
Jesus was a Jesus freak
Jesus was a Jesus freak
And I'm just looking for a place to
Watch the world from
Watch the world from
Watch the world from
I go to work
Do my job the best I can
When I'm through I don't owe no one
Anymore than that
So, stay where you are now
Plenty room for both of us
And I don't want you to come any closer
Than you are right now
Because Jesus was a Jesus freak
Jesus was a Jesus freak
Jesus was a Jesus freak
And I'm just looking for a place to
Watch the world from
Watch the world from