Free in Deed

R13

2015

98 mins

Directed by Jake Mahaffy
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Drama
Award Winner

Drama based on actual events of a lonely minister who starts to lose control when a single mother brings her... More

Drama based on actual events of a lonely minister who starts to lose control when a single mother brings her young, wounded child to church for a miracle cure. Winner of the Venice Horizons Award in 2015.

Set in the distinctive world of storefront churches, and based on actual events, depicts one man’s attempts to perform a miracle. When a single mother brings her young boy to church for healing, this lonely pentecostal minister is forced to confront the seemingly incurable illness of the child... and his own demons as well. The more he prays, the more things seem to spiral out of his control.

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Where to watch Free in Deed

Free in Deed is available to stream in New Zealand... More now on Google TV.

Free in Deed | Ratings & Reviews

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75_%50 reviews
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"Out of all the nominees for Best Film & Director at the 2017 New Zealand Film Awards, Jake Mahaffy’s feature was the one to make people go: “I have never heard of this but my God it looks good.” And it certainly is. Free in Deed uses a true story to sink us into one of America’s poorer districts, showing the screws that lock people of colour down to the ground. From unforgiving employment to uncaring law enforcement, Mahaffy’s depiction of this apathetic world is uncomfortably raw on an I, Daniel Blake level."

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"Mahaffy works with the gifted Ava Berkofsky to present a darkly authentic view of working-class Memphis, broadly capturing the region’s distressed, makeshift urban construction..."

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