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Overview

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Director:
Writers:
Alan B. McElroy (writer) and
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Release Date:
4 September 2001 (Spain) more
Tagline:
The Future Is Clear. more
Plot:
Rayford Steele is an airline pilot whose relationship with his wife has gone sour;he ponders having an affair with an attractive flight attendant... more | add synopsis
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3 nominations more
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(38 articles)
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Kirk Cameron ... Buck Williams

Brad Johnson ... Rayford Steele

Janaya Stephens ... Chloe Steele
Clarence Gilyard Jr. ... Bruce Barnes (as Clarence Gilyard)
Colin Fox ... Chaim Rosenzweig

Gordon Currie ... Nicolae Carpathia
Chelsea Noble ... Hattie Durham
Daniel Pilon ... Jonathan Stonegal
Tony De Santis ... Joshua Cothran
Jack Langedijk ... Dirk Burton
Krista Bridges ... Ivy Gold

Thomas Hauff ... Steve Plank
Neil Crone ... Ken Ritz
Sten Eirik ... Flattop / Carl
Raven Dauda ... Gloria
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Left Behind: The Movie (USA) (video title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for violence.
Runtime:
USA:96 min
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Finland:K-11 | Singapore:PG | USA:PG-13 (appeal) | USA:R (orginal rating) | USA:PG-13
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Trivia:
According to the "Making of..." documentary, Chelsea Noble (Hattie), who is married to Kirk Cameron (Buck), was reading the book in bed. Kirk was asleep, but Chelsea was so excited about the idea of turning this into a movie, she started slapping Kirk on the leg to wake him up, and said, "I want to play the role of Hattie!" Kirk and Chelsea then started farming out the idea to find out who might produce the film. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: When Carpathia shoots Stonegal and Cothran, he uses a semiautomatic pistol, which would normally automatically eject the cartridge casing upon discharge, in order to chamber the next round. This does not occur on either of the two discharges shown. In movies, they frequently use "Non-guns" to fire blanks, which do not (normally) eject the cartridge casings upon discharge. more
Quotes:
Buck Williams: It's true. I can't believe it, it's true! more
Movie Connections:
References The Omen (1976) more
Soundtrack:
After All (Rayford's Song) more

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43 out of 58 people found the following comment useful.
Fire the screenplay writers, 24 April 2005
2/10
Author: rpzowie (rpzowie@yahoo.com) from USA

I'm a Christian who generally believes in the theology taught in Left Behind. That being said, I think Left Behind is one of the worst films I've seen in some time.

To have a good movie, you need to have a well-written screenplay. Left Behind fell woefully short on this. For one thing, it radically deviates from the book. Sometimes this is done to condense a 400-page novel down to a two-hour film, but in this film I saw changes that made no sense whatsoever.

Another thing, there is zero character development. When characters in the story get saved (I won't say who), the book makes it clear that it's a long, soul-searching process. In the film it's quick and artificial. The book is written decently enough where people like Rayford Steele, Buck Williams and Hattie Durham seem real, but in the movie scenarios are consistently given the quick treatment without anything substantial. In another scene where one character gets angry about being left behind (again, I won't say who), it seems artificial.

I realize as a Christian it's unedifying for me to say I disliked this film, but I can't in a good conscience recommend a film that I feel was horribly done. Perhaps it would've been better to make the first book into 2-3 films. Either way, Christians need to realize that to be taken seriously as filmmakers, we need to start by putting together a film in a quality way. I realize a lot of effort probably went into Left Behind, but that's the way I see it.

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