# All Saints the movie

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 11, 2017, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-saints-the-movie/793360 "2017-08-11T21:03:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-saints-the-movie/793360/1 "2017-08-11T21:03:43Z")

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As a movie buff and a thoughtful Christian, I have often railed against the “faith-based” movie genre. They are usually market-driven treacle with little artistic worth and are often too preachy and navel-gazing. Movies like _God is Not Dead_ or _Heaven is Real_ embarrass me as someone who knows that religion has inspired some of the greatest art in history.

But I’m looking forward to this film, _All Saints_ (release date 8/24). I’m actually quite psyched about it. [It’s a true, feel-good story](http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/religion/2016/10/13/how-myanmar-refugees-saved-dying-smyrna-church-and-inspired-movie/91943740/) that I am fortunate to have witnessed. Some of my friends, members of All Saints Church, are extras. The cast includes John Corbett and Barry Corbin, who I like. It was filmed on location in nearby Smyrna, Tennessee at the real All Saints Church. I’m just pleased that there is a movie coming out that is pro-church AND pro-immigrant, that hopefully expresses the openness and inclusivity of the Episcopal Church that I know.

So, anyway. I’m not one to make a habit of shilling movies that I haven’t seen and haven’t yet been released, and this is the kind of movie that I would have been tempted to skip based on the studio name and genre alone. I hope people give it a chance (or at least read the real story linked to above).

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**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-saints-the-movie/793360/2 "2017-08-11T21:15:17Z")

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Here’s a better contemporary news story:

> **[Myanmar refugees reinvigorate Tenn. church - USATODAY.com](http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/religion/2008-12-01-tenn-church-refugees_N.htm)**
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> In the rows of spinach and collard greens behind All Saints Episcopal Church, a quiet resurrection is underway.