"The Resurrection of Gavin Stone" is a faith-based comedy movie produced by WWE Studios.
The movie tells a story of a former child star, Gavin Stone portrayed by Brett Dalton, who later finds redemption at a church in his hometown.
This movie is directed by Dallas Jenkins and reported to be a breath of fresh air from other know epic Christian-themed films like "Rise" and "Miracles from Heaven."
"The Resurrection of Gavin Stone" is just a proof that an increase in faith-based films has drawn Christian and even non-Christian audiences to cinemas over the past years.
"You can laugh, have a good time and not feel like you're being preached to," Jenkins, the son of author Jerry Jenkins (The Left Behind series), told CP. "The church outsider sees the movie from the eyes of the main character, an outsider. We made sure to make the main character realistic and relatable so people could see the movie through his eyes."
"The great thing for me about 'The Resurrection of Gavin Stone' is it's a throwback to the old fashioned Hollywood movie that you can watch with your family, has a message, and is funny and entertaining. They didn't call them faith-based movies, they just called them good movies," D.B. Sweeney playing Pastor Allen Richardson in the film, said. "'It's a Wonderful Life' was a mainstream Hollywood movie about faith, redemption, religion, and it was rated G. It didn't have any heads blowing up, sex scenes or any controversial points of view about all of the issues that Hollywood jams into our heads all of the time."
"I was a little nervous at first because I often find that 'Christian movies' tend to be preachy and hit you over the head with the Bible. While I agree with the message, I don't think it's the right way to make a movie sometimes," he added. "But when I read the script I was like, 'Oh, it's really funny, it's touching.' I was just so excited that the script was funny because any time that a movie tries to impose a message on the audience, you're halfway down the drain already."
Watch "the Resurrection of Gavin Stone" trailer below:
