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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Paramount
Salesrank: 19481
Released: September 23, 2003 |
| Our Price: $33.96 |
| Used Price: $14.88 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
LEAP OF FAITH stars Steve Martin as Jonas Nightengale, a fraudulent faith healer who makes a living visiting small towns and giving hope in the form of prayer. Aided by his no nonsense manager, Jane (Winger), Jonas sets up his tent in a small suburb of Kansas where he soon learns that their hidden mikes, cameras and computers can’t fool the neighborhood sheriff (Neeson). But, when Jonas is touched by a local waitress (Davidovich) and her disabled son Boyd (Haas), he learns something new about truth and what real miracles are made of.
Leap of Faith Reviews:
Steve Martin and Debra Winger enjoying Meatloaf-To Cool 
2009-12-12 - I saw this movie years ago and just had to see it again. In what could be one of Martin's best persona's, the music and the show are outstanding. I highly recommend this movie and if you can get the soundtrack.....IT'S AWESOME.
**This is BlueJazz!!!
Outstanding Service and Product
2009-08-29 - The DVD I ordered, "Leap of Faith," was discontinued a few years ago. Thanks to Amazon.com, I was able to order it. The item arrived quickly under the standard shipping option, and the product was in excellent condition at a decent price. Nice work!
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2009-05-07 - Is this a case of Art imitating Life? With all the disclosures about them in the news, Evangelists are suspect. This movie was based on some of the more notorious among them. Steve Martin can do it all: comedy, drams, musicals, and now a documentary? If you like the message, but have doubts about the messenger, then, this movie is for you.
Great movie for both believers & non-believers
2009-02-28 - Wonderful movie with great performances from the whole cast, especially Steve Martin. It's not meant to be a fast movie, but rather an uplifting one. It's Steve Martin's best non-comedic role, and he was perfectly cast.
A Modern-day Parable. 
2008-06-09 - Leap of Faith is Hollywood's take on the disturbing subject of 'stealing in the name of the Lord', the lowest form stealing. It's understandable why Christian believers would not want any part of seeing this movie.... but than again, they should be the first to see it as it's premise is nothing new and in no way maligns or mocks their faith, rather, the film is a commentary about fake evangelists and faith-healers out for a buck. The Gospels record such goings on in the first century when Jesus ran everybody out of the temple for turning it into "a den of robbers". OK so the acts were different but the idea is the same: preying on those in need and on their vulnerabilities. In the temple, it was people who came from all over to make sacrifices to atone for their sins, and with bogus evangelists and faith-healers it's their need for salvation and healing.
Steve Martin does a wonderful job at pulling off the heartless con man who cares nothing about the people in a town that has fallen on hard times particularly because of an extended drought. As I stated before, the movie is not jab at Christianity. If anything, it defends it as it makes commentary not only on this bogus faith-healer but also how God - as He does in the pages of the Bible - can take any situation and use it to His Glory and to the benefit to those who believe. In this movie a real miracle takes place that upstages the players. Through the efforts of corrupt sinners preying on sinners looking for help, God is totally in control to bring a blessing and even make the preying one take note. To quote Joseph "What you meant for evil, God meant for good". All in all, we are all in the same boat - sinners needing salvation, not only from Hell but also from our own ways that cause us and others pain and suffering and what a way God chooses to bless humanity not only to allow Himself to become one of us via His Son Jesus but also through humanity itself regardless of the condition.
The movie concludes wonderfully as we find our preacher man having repented and the town is once again blessed.... Rain!
