Machine Gun Preacher
- Director: Marc Forster
- Writer: Jason Keller
- Cast: Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Shannon, Madeline Carroll, Kathy Baker
- Theatrical Release Date: September 23, 2011
Synopsis: This inspirational true story, Machine Gun Preacher is about Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing criminal who undergoes an astonishing transformation and finds an unexpected calling as the savior of hundreds of kidnapped and orphaned children,..[a] moving story of violence and redemption. [Synopsis courtesy of TIFF]
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Indiewire Reviews
REVIEW | Guns a-Blazing, "Machine Gun Preacher" Repeatedly Shoots Itself in the Foot
"African Rambo" are the two words that best summarize Marc Forster's "Machine Gun Preacher," but they would actually make a better title. They're spoken by a clueless hillbilly archetype to describe the emotionally charged Sam Childers (Gerard Butler), the real-life junkie-turned-pastor whose newfou...
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