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201476 minPGdocumentary

3.0/ 10(1 rating)• TMDB

Jesus Town, USA

201476 minPGdocumentary

3.0/ 10(1 rating)• TMDB

A small Oklahoma town has staged a long-running reenactment of the story of Christ with an amateur cast, including a paperboy playing Jesus.

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Julian T. Pinder,

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A small Oklahoma town has staged a long-running reenactment of the story of Christ with an amateur cast, including a paperboy playing Jesus.

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Julian T. Pinderdirector

Billie Mintzdirector

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For 88 years a small town has pantomimed the story of Christ in a 'unique' construction of Jerusalem built into an Oklahoma Buffalo reserve. It's real-life Christopher Guest meets Fellini in a comedic, poignant, cinematic 'hybrid' doumentary chronicling a 300-strong amateur cast, a 6-hour production, and Zack, the venerable paperboy-cum- Jesus actor who's massive secret threatens to de-rail the entire show.

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