Got the strangest thing in my e-mail today. You’ll just have to read it for yourself:
HEART of the BEHOLDER is Now Available on DVD
HEART of the BEHOLDER is based on the true story of a young couple who refused to buckle to a fanatical religious group who demanded the removal of Martin Scorsese’s controversial film, “The Last Temptation of Christ,” from the couple’s chain of video stores.
The couple’s employees and family endure intimidation, harassment, and death threats, but held their ground against the religious censorship. The religious group then blackmails the corrupt prosecutor with information about his hidden sex life. The couple loses their business and are personally ruined.
After losing everything and hitting rock bottom, the couple get something the powerless seldom do — REVENGE.
To Order Online go to http://www.customflix.com/206725
After 12 years of up and down development hell in Hollywood, it took the support of our Internet fans to finally get this movie made. HEART of the BEHOLDER is about the abuse of power — both religious and political and does not trash Christians or people of faith.
For more information on our Cast and Crew go to http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0415838/
Matt Letscher – Mask of Zorro, Good Morning Miami
Sarah Joy Brown – 3-time Emmy Winner
John Dye – 9 seasons on Touched by an Angel
Jason Wiles – 3rd Watch
Michael Dorn – Star Trek
Greg Germann – Ally McBeal
Anne Ramsay – Mad About You, The L Word
Tony Todd – Candyman, Platoon
Priscilla Barnes – Three’s Company
Chloe Moretz – Amityville HorrorFor More Information on HEART of the BEHOLDER go to http://www.beholder.com/index_fl.htm
The Flash-animation teaser and the live-action trailer both give the impression that this film will be pretty crappy — sort of the secularist version of those shrill, cheesy, low-budget end-times movies — but I am mildly curious all the same. The fact that its cast includes Michael Dorn, he who has starred in more Star Trek episodes than any other actor, kind of adds to the appeal.
BTW, the film’s story synopsis claims the main characters “opened the first videocassette rental store in St. Louis in 1981,” but that seems a dubious detail, since it was reported two days ago that the first video rental store was Movies Unlimited in Philadelphia, which opened in 1978 and will be shutting down in a few weeks as its owners make the transition to a mail-order business.
Oh, wait. The synopsis probably means that the characters opened the first St. Louis store, rather than that they opened the first store and it happened to be in St. Louis. Okay, never mind, then.
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