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Here is a very unusual film about God, miracles, televangelists, marginalized Catholics, fraud and truth.
Review by David Bruce

TOUCH
(1997)

Everyone wants a piece of the action!

Bill Hill: Christopher Walken,
Juvenal: Skeet Ulrich,
Debra Lusanne: Gina Gershon,
Lynn Faulker: Bridget Fonda,
Kathy Worthington: Janeane Garofalo,
Antoinette Baker: Lolita Davidovich.

Written and directed by Paul Schrader. Based on the novel by Elmore Leonard. Running time: 97 minutes. Rated R (for some sexuality, nudity, language and a scene of violence).

Roger Ebert says:
"Schrader is serious about religion... the lessons are in his blood, and in "Touch'' I believe he was drawn to the serious implications of the story, not the comic possibilities. It is not in him to generate jokes with the stigmata. He correctly sees Walken and Arnold as figures of fun: Anyone who uses religion as an avenue to publicity and self-aggrandizement is missing the point, and that is always funny. But Juvenal does bleed from the wounds of Christ, and so must be approached in another way."

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