***SPOILERS*** Very strange but at the same time thought-provoking film about God providence and what life is really all about.
We at first see this infant, Johathan Smith, left at a gas station without at first realizing what he has to do with the movie. It's now 33 years later as we see this young woman Maggie Tate, Lori Heuring, finding out through her gynecologist that she's just became pregnant. For a moment you think that Maggie was the baby, since your not sure if it was a boy or girl, at the beginning of the movie. It's only later when we get to see the kindly and angelic Manny, Antonio David Lyons, that we realize that he was the blessed child who was left at the doorstep.
As for Maggy she's shocked to find out that she's pregnant since she had her ovaries removed as a teenager after they got dangerously infected. As for Maggy's boyfriend Wade Carpenter, Clayne Crawford, he in no way could be the child's father since was born sterile and can never possibly father any child with Maggy or anyone else. With both Maggy and Wade wanting to have their child aborted in comes these local Christian fundamentalists who somehow got wind of the immaculate conception and want to have the couple's child all for themselves. It's as if they feel that Maggie and Wayde's child is the second coming of Jesus Christ!
This all leads to the head fundamentalist Karl Hawthorne, Patrick Bergin, trying to get the couple to give the child, when born, away for adoption-with him paying Maggie & Wade $50,000.00- to two of the members of his group the McCains Paul & Dianne Dennis Martin & Jenny Litteton. It's later at Hawthorne's house that Maggie suddenly realizes that he's not exactly the fine upstanding Christian person that he claims to be and decides to keep, despite the difficulties it would bring her and Wayde, the baby for herself.
It's almost halfway through the movie that a grown up Manny suddenly makes his appearances as he's at this hardware store buying lotto tickets for his preacher-adoptive-dad Isaiah, Tucker Smallwood. It's also there that Maggie sees that Manny by staring down this big and abusive thug, Reesus Flenury, is a person with powers far beyond those of mortal man. That's if Manny is in fact mortal at all!
***SPOILERS*** As things turn out Manny somehow knows about Maggie's problems and goes out of his way to correct them by talking her into having her yet unborn baby. This has Maggie as well as Manny and her boyfriend Wayde threatened by Hawthorne and his Christian fundamentalist thugs who turn, by their violent actions, out to be anything but Christians! The bittersweet ending has you wonder what exactly Manny's intentions, in saving both Maggie and her baby, were. But that was what made, by leaving it up in the air, "False Prophets" the spellbinding and effective movie that it is.
We at first see this infant, Johathan Smith, left at a gas station without at first realizing what he has to do with the movie. It's now 33 years later as we see this young woman Maggie Tate, Lori Heuring, finding out through her gynecologist that she's just became pregnant. For a moment you think that Maggie was the baby, since your not sure if it was a boy or girl, at the beginning of the movie. It's only later when we get to see the kindly and angelic Manny, Antonio David Lyons, that we realize that he was the blessed child who was left at the doorstep.
As for Maggy she's shocked to find out that she's pregnant since she had her ovaries removed as a teenager after they got dangerously infected. As for Maggy's boyfriend Wade Carpenter, Clayne Crawford, he in no way could be the child's father since was born sterile and can never possibly father any child with Maggy or anyone else. With both Maggy and Wade wanting to have their child aborted in comes these local Christian fundamentalists who somehow got wind of the immaculate conception and want to have the couple's child all for themselves. It's as if they feel that Maggie and Wayde's child is the second coming of Jesus Christ!
This all leads to the head fundamentalist Karl Hawthorne, Patrick Bergin, trying to get the couple to give the child, when born, away for adoption-with him paying Maggie & Wade $50,000.00- to two of the members of his group the McCains Paul & Dianne Dennis Martin & Jenny Litteton. It's later at Hawthorne's house that Maggie suddenly realizes that he's not exactly the fine upstanding Christian person that he claims to be and decides to keep, despite the difficulties it would bring her and Wayde, the baby for herself.
It's almost halfway through the movie that a grown up Manny suddenly makes his appearances as he's at this hardware store buying lotto tickets for his preacher-adoptive-dad Isaiah, Tucker Smallwood. It's also there that Maggie sees that Manny by staring down this big and abusive thug, Reesus Flenury, is a person with powers far beyond those of mortal man. That's if Manny is in fact mortal at all!
***SPOILERS*** As things turn out Manny somehow knows about Maggie's problems and goes out of his way to correct them by talking her into having her yet unborn baby. This has Maggie as well as Manny and her boyfriend Wayde threatened by Hawthorne and his Christian fundamentalist thugs who turn, by their violent actions, out to be anything but Christians! The bittersweet ending has you wonder what exactly Manny's intentions, in saving both Maggie and her baby, were. But that was what made, by leaving it up in the air, "False Prophets" the spellbinding and effective movie that it is.