A man yells at people in a church congregation. A woman looks disappointed when she sees a bloody mark on her husband's arm she assumes it's from a drug injection and he says that he gave blood. We see a field hospital with many injured and sick people and we understand that many of the people are sick from cholera and malaria; we see a child being treated for burns. We see a photograph of a child with his arm cut off at the elbow and learn that it was cut off by a man with a machete.
We see a photograph of a young girl with a burn scar on her face. We see a dead man lying on the floor, he has three fresh needle marks in his arm and many empty beer bottles are strewn around him it is not clear whether he died from an accidental overdose. A man says, "My family was killed. There is mention of people becoming sick from cholera and malaria. A man says, "Death comes at night to the villages.
We read that there have been , murders and 40, child abductions during this civil war and that the children are raped, tortured and sold into the sex trade. LANGUAGE 8 - About 39 F-words and its derivatives, 18 scatological terms, 5 anatomical terms, 18 mild obscenities, 5 derogatory terms for Africans, name-calling stupid, crack-head, crazy, wizard, Satan, cowards, stubborn, African Rambo , 2 religious exclamations.
SUBSTANCE USE - We see a dead man lying on the floor, he has three fresh needle marks in his arm and many empty beer bottles are strewn around him it is not clear whether he died from an accidental overdose , a woman injects a man in the arm with a drug while sitting in a restroom, a man prepares a dug and injects another man while he is driving a car, and a man struggles with drug withdrawal symptoms and we see him thrashing, perspiring and moaning.
People are seen drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes in several bar scenes, men do shots of alcohol in a few bar scenes, a man wakes up on he floor after a long night of drinking, people drink alcohol at a party and a man is seen asleep on the floor of his home and we see empty beer bottles and cans on tables around him as his young daughter plays nearby.
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If the Lord moves in mysterious ways, his wonders to unfold, rarely can he have worked more mysteriously than in the case of Sam Childers, a Pennsylvania ex-con, drug addict and thief who was born again, and since , has been leading a crusade on behalf of the wretched orphans of South Sudan.
We hear about Sudan all the time. There is little ambiguity there. In Africa, a warlord named Joseph Kony runs something called the Lord's Resistance Army that has murdered hundreds of thousands, burned villages, and kidnapped some 50, children, forcing the boys to become soldiers and making the girls sex slaves.
He is an evil man, and while we're occupied in trying to bomb Gaddafi, we might profitably drop a few on him. In this film, which begins in Pennsylvania, we meet Childers Gerard Butler , who with his buddy Donnie the always effective Michael Shannon , drinks, drugs, raises hell and makes things hard on his wife, Lynn Michelle Monaghan , and daughter. While he was in the pen, Lynn found God. One Sunday morning, after a bloody night of violence, Sam allows himself to be dragged along to a church service, where he confesses himself to be a sinner and then undergoes a baptism of full immersion.
It takes. One day, he hears a sermon from a missionary from Sudan, describing the plight of the orphans. Sam knows the construction business and informs his astonished wife that he feels called to go to Africa and see what he can do to help. There is a lot. Faced by the specter of overwhelming suffering, he builds an orphanage, raises money from home to help out and becomes a driven man.
Eventually, so dire is the situation, Childers returns to the instincts of his violent past and finds himself fighting against the Lord's Resistance Army as a commander in the Sudan People's Liberation Army. Thus the movie's title. Well, Childers isn't the first to go to war in the name of the Lord.
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Genre Drama. Directed By Marc Forster. Run Time 2 hours 9 minutes. Theatre Release November 02, by Relativity Media. Gerard Butler as Sam Childers. Article continues below. Free Newsletters Get the best from CT editors, delivered straight to your inbox! Michelle Monaghan as Lynn Childers. Michael Shannon as Sam's friend Donnie. Childers Butler with one of the orphans. Tags: Film. Posted: September 23 , More From: Todd Hertz.
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