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The Eyes of Tammy Faye

Original title: The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Year: 2021
Running time: 126 min.
Country: United States
Director: Michael Showalter
Screenwriter: Abe Sylvia
Music: Theodore Shapiro
Cinematography: Mike Gioulakis
Cast: Jessica Chastain, Andrew Garfield, Vincent D'Onofrio, Cherry Jones, Sam Jaeger, Fredric Lehne, Gabriel Olds, Chandler Head, Mark Wystrach, Lindsay Ayliffe, Dan Johnson, Louis Cancelmi, Randy Havens, Joe Ando-Hirsh, Kimberly Hester Huffstetler, Coley Campany, Meredith Jackson, Jay Huguley, Kevin J. O'ConnorSee 6 More
Producer: Searchlight Pictures, Freckle Films, Odd Lot Entertainment, Semi-Formal Productions. Distributor: Searchlight Pictures
Genre: Drama | Biography. Religion. 1970s. 1980s. Television
Synopsis: Jessica Chastain transforms into flamboyant televangelist and singer Tammy Faye Bakker, the woman who would, alongside husband Jim Bakker (Andrew Garfield), build a multimillion dollar ministry empire. The Bakkers’ spectacular fall from grace thrust Tammy Faye into the mainstream spotlight. Her fashion and makeup choices were regular subjects of derision in late-night talk shows and sketch comedies, which cemented her place in popular culture.

Awards: 2021: 2 Academy Awards: Best Actress (Chastain) & Makeup & Hairstyling

2021: Golden Globes: Nominated for Best Leading Actress Drama (Chastain)

2021: BAFTA Awards: Best Make-up & Hair

2021: San Sebastian Film Festival: Best Actress (Chastain) (ex aequo)

2021: Critics Choice Awards: Best Actress (Chastain) & Make up

2021: Screen Actors Guild (SAG): Best Actress (Chastain)

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2021: Chicago Film Critics Awards: Nominated for Best Actress (Chastain)

2021: Satellite Awards: Nominated for Best Actress Drama (Jessica Chastain)

Critics' reviews

"[It] is definitely worth several hallelujahs (...) Entertaining and surprisingly funny given the subject matter, the movie’s also an exquisitely acted affair (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"

Brian Truitt: USA Today
"Chastain's performance, which should net her an Oscar nomination, is kind but warped, ambitious but subservient, self-loving and self-loathing"

Johnny Oleksinski: New York Post
"A movie that feels both sweet and incomplete: a story as tenderhearted and inscrutable, for better or worse, as its muse."

Leah Greenblatt: Entertainment Weekly
"A ticklishly fascinating rise-and-fall saga (...) The Bakkers were hucksters of a grand order, and the film uses their spectacular greedhead soap opera to tell the larger American story of how Christianity got turned into showbiz"

Owen Gleiberman: Variety
"[The] image rehabilitation for Tammy Faye Bakker only gets so far dramatically, and really would have been better served in a richer, more ambitious film (...) Rating :★★ (out of 4)"

Brian Tallerico: rogerebert.com
"For better or worse, we’re on Tammy Faye’s side, but the film often embraces the worst bits of a complicated story in order to make Tammy Faye look better"

Kate Erbland: IndieWire
"Jessica Chastain Applies Heart and Soul to Televangelist Biopic (...) Sympathetic (and not unfunny) look at Bakker scandals is also a rollicking tale of religious hypocrisy"

Robert Abele: The Wrap
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