| The movie was THE RAPTURE, and she played the part of a prostitute-type
who later got saved. She was a phone operator in her new job, and felt
that the end of the world was coming, so she spent much of her work
time trying to "save" callers. She runs off with her kid and sets up
camp to wait for "The Rapture."
It wasn't a great movie, but many parts were interesting...
Catherine
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| On the contrary, I think it was a fabulous movie - haunting and
very disturbing. It asks some serious questions about the role that
religion can and should take in our lives, and how far one should go
to test their beliefs. I'll elaborate behind a FF
Mimi Rogers plays a bored directory assistance operator who at night
lives the swingers' lifestyle. With her friend Vic, they cruise bars
to pick up other couple for wife-swapping and group sex. Slowly, she
has some encounters with various people who are fervently religious.
She starts out mocking them, but begins to seek them out. Finally, she
has a full conversion, takes up with a man she met while a swinger,
converts, him, and they get married. Six years later, they have a
five year old daughter (who looks eight or nine), and he is a clean-cut
business executive. He is forced to lay off a drunken bum, who comes
back into the office and kills a half dozen people with a shotgun,
including her husband. She accepts this death as part of God's plan,
but it is a struggle for her. The one saving thought for her is that
the "rapture" is coming soon, and she and her daughter will be swept
into heaven and reunited with her husband. Finally, the time is at
hand. They go to the desert to be taken into heaven. They wait out
there over two weeks, but nothing happens. The daughter continually
states that God should let them die, so they can go to heaven.
Finally,Mimi blows her daughter's head off with a gun and tries to
commit suicide, but she can't, since suicide would mean she couldn't
go to heaven. Finally her dead daughter appears to her in a vision,
saying to her that all Mimi has to do to go to heaven is tell God that
she loves him. He will forgive her for killing her daughter and let
her go to heaven. But Mimi is adamant - she can't say she loves God
because she can't forgive Him for taking her husbanda and her daughter
away from her. If He were all-loving and all-good, how could he allow
those horrible things to happen. She refuses to say she loves God, and
that's how the movie ends.
It still gets me thinking.
NAZZ
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