Directed by Bryan Forbes
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
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Hayley Mills is a gullible teenager who discovers a man passed out in her barn. He wakes up and is startled to see her standing over him, uttering "Jesus Christ" and then passing out again. She takes his exclamation literally and begins bringing him food: bread and wine. She easily convinces her younger siblings that he is Jesus, and the word soon spreads among all of the children in the countryside. The bewildered man, actually a murderer on the run, eventually figures out what is happening. Forbes and producer Richard Attenborough take a ludicrous premise and extend it to a feature length film, basically a gimmick. The only real insight comes at the end, when the man is changed by the unconditional love of the children, not the other way around.
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