Synopsis
The Apostle (1997) is a Robert Duvall drama you can watch online on iFILM. Duvall wrote it, directed it, and stars as Sonny Dewey, a Texas Pentecostal preacher whose whole world collapses in a single night.
His wife has taken up with another preacher, and his congregation has been pulled out from under him. In a fit of rage Sonny swings a baseball bat at his rival and flees the state. He reinvents himself under a new name in rural Louisiana, preaching on a small radio station and building a ragtag church of poor Black and white worshippers from nothing. The law, though, is never far behind. Farrah Fawcett, Miranda Richardson and a young Billy Bob Thornton orbit a man running from himself.
Duvall spent thirteen years writing the script and financed the shoot out of his own pocket; the performance landed him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. It treats faith neither as a joke nor as syrup — a man who can rescue strangers' souls yet can't save his own. Stream The Apostle (1997) online on iFILM.
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