Wise blood
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A darkly comic tale of a young southerner's furious soul-searchings. Hazel Motes, an Army veteran, returns from overseas to the abandoned Tennessee farmhouse of his youth. He embarks on a picaresque journey in the rural South to find salvation among misfits and religious charlatans. (Does not circulate)
The film follows the troubled life of Hazel "Haze" Motes, a 22-year-old veteran of an unspecified war and a preacher of the Church of Truth Without Christ. The Church serves to further his bitter, passion-fueled and often spiteful words against anyone or anything representing a belief in God, an afterlife, judgment, sin or evil.
The film follows the troubled life of Hazel "Haze" Motes, a 22-year-old veteran of an unspecified war and a preacher of the Church of Truth Without Christ. The Church serves to further his bitter, passion-fueled and often spiteful words against anyone or anything representing a belief in God, an afterlife, judgment, sin or evil.
Credits
- Cast
- Brad Dourif, John Huston, Ned Beatty
Complete catalog record
A darkly comic tale of a young southerner's furious soul-searchings. Hazel Motes, an Army veteran, returns from overseas to the abandoned Tennessee farmhouse of his youth. He embarks on a picaresque journey in the rural South to find salvation among misfits and religious charlatans. (Does not circulate)
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- 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record
- Wikidata · Q2555285 ↗ — country
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