What I Think About Movies I've Seen

Jake (played by Randy Wayne) and Roger (Robert Bailey, Jr.) grew up as neighbors and best friends. One day, Jake walked in front of a car and Roger pushed him out of the way but got hit himself. He broke his leg but never fully recovered and walked with a limp after that. Jake is a star athlete, and with Roger no longer able to participate they start to drift apart, with Jake spending all his time with the jocks and popular kids, and Roger feeling more and more alone. Finally, the pain gets so bad that Roger commits suicide by shooting himself at school. This greatly affects Jake, who has to wonder whether he could have helped prevent it had he not turned his back on Roger. He begins talking to a youth pastor and attending church, and tries to reach out to other kids that he thinks might feel the same way that Roger did.

I think that this is ultimately a movie without much of an audience. It's not really getting much advertising, and even if it were the trailer is pretty misleading and makes it out to be a pretty different movie than it is. It is a movie that makes an attempt at evangelism, although without getting any mainstream press it's likely that the people who see it will mostly already be Christians. On top of that, the acting isn't very good, and it has the feeling of a church production (which it is) rather than a Hollywood production. I did like the story it was trying to tell, but it didn't really convey it in a very compelling manner.