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Salvation! is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Scott B released in USA on 11 september 1987 with Stephen McHattie
Salvation! (1987)
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Add to a movie listSalvation! (also known as Salvation!: Have You Said Your Prayers Today?) is a 1987 film by Beth B, starring Viggo Mortensen, Exene Cervenka and Stephen McHattie. The film is a parody of televangelism released right after the real-life Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart scandals.
The film was released on VHS, but not as yet on DVD.
The film tagline was "SEX. POWER. MONEY. All in the name of God."
Synopsis
McHattie plays Reverend Randall, a Staten Island-based televangelist who has been bilking his flock and secretly watches pornography while he is rehearsing his sermons in his stately home. Cervenka plays Rhonda Stample, a born again Christian. After Rhonda's non-believer husband, Jerome (Viggo Mortensen), loses his factory job, he and two cousins enlist Rhonda in a plot to entrap Rev. Randall in a sex scandal and blackmail him.Actors
Stephen McHattie
(Revered Edward Randall)
Dominique Davalos
(Lenore Finley)
Viggo Mortensen
(Jerome Stample)
Rockets Redglare
(Ollie)
Nancy Sullivan
(Girl at Poker Game)
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