Journey to Bethlehem

"The greatest story ever comes alive!"

2023 1h 39m EN

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7.7

BANGER

★7.7TMDB · 104

FamilyDrama

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A young woman carrying an unimaginable responsibility. A young man torn between love and honor. A jealous king who will stop at nothing to keep his crown.

“The greatest story ever comes alive!”

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Cast

Fiona Palomo
Mary
Milo Manheim
Joseph
Omid Djalili
Melchior
Rizwan Manji
Gaspar
Geno Segers
Balthazar
Moriah Peters
Deborah
Joel Smallbone
General Antipater
Lecrae
Archangel Gabriel

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Adam Anders
Writers: Peter Barsocchini, Adam Anders
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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1 / 5

ERA

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Released 3 years ago.

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2 / 5

DIRECTOR

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Editor Sabrina Plisco shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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3 / 5

CAST

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Fiona Palomo and Milo Manheim and Omid Djalili carry the top of the cast.

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4 / 5

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "The greatest story ever comes alive!".

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5 / 5

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt13848804 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Adam Anders directs. Sabrina Plisco cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Released 3 years ago.
2Editor Sabrina Plisco shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
3Fiona Palomo and Milo Manheim and Omid Djalili carry the top of the cast.
4Marketing tagline: "The greatest story ever comes alive!".
5IMDB entry: tt13848804 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
6Classified under 11 themes, including "arranged marriage", "bethlehem", "musical", "family drama".

The technical file

Editing: Sabrina Plisco
Production design: Eduardo Hidalgo Jr.
Costume design: Lena Mossum
VFX supervisor: Matt Boardman
Runtime: 99 min · 1h 39m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $6,000,000
Box office: $7,778,330
Return: 130% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG
IMDB: Journey to Bethlehem (2023)

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CinemaSerf2023-11-24
★ 6/10
Scene stealing megalomanic King Herod (Antonio Banderas) hams up marvellously in this enjoyable if totally forgettable pre-Nativity Christmas story. He presides over the kingdom of Judah towards which three magi are heading when they espy a bright star in the sky portending an event of great importance. Meantime, the well educated Mary (Fiona Paloma) is regaling against an arranged marriage with a man she's never even met! Anyway, times being what they are, she has to acquiesce and meets the fairly easy on the eye Joseph (Milo Manheim). It's not exactly hate a first sight, but one night she get's another - more celestial - visitor who leaves her with quite a belly ache. She tells her folks, then her would-be husband and is soon, unsurprisingly, on her own... Quite why Gabriel couldn't just have told everyone at once? Anyway, the increasingly paranoid Herod gets wind of this impending miracle and uses the three kings and his son Antipater (Joel Smallbone) to track down and destroy the potential usurper. That fact that we still celebrate Christmas eliminates any sense of jeopardy so this is essentially just a light-hearted piece of musical theatre that uses the two slightly soporific stars to tell us a story of when Mary met Joseph. The songs are standard fayre with plenty of perfect choreography, some earnest lyrics about love and loyalty (and a fun song from Banderas about absolute power) before Omid Djalili's visiting Melchior tries to explain what myrrh is for. It's wordy, cheesy but joyous seasonal stuff that I was rather surprised to find got a cinema release in the UK. You shouldn't hate it.

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