Lifemark

"Hope is at the heart of every journey."

2022 1h 45m EN

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7.5

BANGER

★7.5TMDB · 41

Drama

Synopsis

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David's comfortable world is turned upside down when his birth mother Melissa unexpectedly reaches out, longing to meet the eighteen year old son she's only held once.

“Hope is at the heart of every journey.”

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Cast

Raphael Ruggero
David Colton
Kirk Cameron
James Colton
Dawn Long
Melissa Cates
Rebecca Rogers
Susan Colton
Alex Kendrick
Shawn Cates
Marisa Lynae Hampton
Young Melissa Cates
Isabelle Almoyan
Reese
Lowrey Brown
Brian

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Kevin Peeples
Writers: Alex Kendrick, Kevin Peeples, Stephen Kendrick
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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1 / 7

ERA

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Released 4 years ago.

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2 / 7

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Kevin Peeples, shot by Bob Scott. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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3 / 7

DIRECTOR

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

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4 / 7

RUNTIME

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Raphael Ruggero and Kirk Cameron and Dawn Long carry the top of the cast.

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5 / 7

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Hope is at the heart of every journey.".

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6 / 7

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt20864704 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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7 / 7

WILD

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Only 41 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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The take

Kevin Peeples directs. Bob Scott behind the camera. Alex Kendrick cuts. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Released 4 years ago.
2Directed by Kevin Peeples, shot by Bob Scott. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
3Editor Alex Kendrick shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
4Raphael Ruggero and Kirk Cameron and Dawn Long carry the top of the cast.
5Marketing tagline: "Hope is at the heart of every journey.".
6IMDB entry: tt20864704 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
7Only 41 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
8Classified under 15 themes, including "high school", "christianity", "adoption", "conservative".

The technical file

Cinematography: Bob Scott
Editing: Alex Kendrick
Production design: Katherine Tucker
Makeup / hair: Mary Smit
VFX supervisor: Connor Thomas
Stunt coordinator: Chris A. Wilks
Runtime: 105 min · 1h 45m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Box office: $5,021,114
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Lifemark (2022)

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CinemaSerf2023-07-17
★ 5/10
It probably wouldn’t be fair to just trash this film out of hand. There will doubtless be many who find the pro-life message it emphasises life-affirming. As a piece of cinema, though, it is a shockingly simplistic and one-sided attempt to suggest to young women facing that most difficult of decisions that all in the garden is ridiculously rosy! We start with “David” (the easy on the Raphael Ruggero) whom we discover has been adopted by the Christian (that’s important) Colton family - “Jimmy” (Kirk Cameron) and “Susan” (Rebecca Rogers). They live a happy life with the young man a keen wrestler about to go on to college. Sadly, though, injury befalls him and after surgery to relieve pressure on his brain - the recovery from which would put Lazarus to shame - he has to rethink his plans. Meantime, his birth mother realises that he is now eighteen and so attempts to get in touch. The rest of this rather sentimentally cheesy drama follows a slightly nauseating path, I found, aided unhelpfully by his rather irritating mate “Nate” (Justin Sterner) who insisted on filming everything on his phone - even some of the most sensitive and personal moments as the story evolves with an almost menacing degree of indoctrinating pontification - subtle, yes - as an air raid! The acting, especially from the adults, is twee and pedestrian in the extreme with adulation and fawning galore as we plod along towards an ending that I found supremely condescending. This is at best, a mediocre television movie that should only be shown in cinemas with a warning that it completely lacks any sense of balance. The soundtrack is also banal - plinky plonky piano chords just to reinforce the gloopiness. I didn’t hate it. Cameron et al are entitled to their point of view, but if this is supposed to be in any way educational or realistic, then I’m Tom Thumb!

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