{"id":41391,"date":"2016-03-02T13:18:49","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T21:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=41391"},"modified":"2016-03-08T12:13:16","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T20:13:16","slug":"well-thats-one-way-to-promote-a-faith-based-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2016\/03\/well-thats-one-way-to-promote-a-faith-based-film.html","title":{"rendered":"Well, that’s one<\/i> way to promote a “faith-based” film."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Miracles from Heaven<\/a><\/i> \u2014 the latest in a series of \u201cfaith-based\u201d films about people who get a glimpse of the world beyond this one \u2014 opens this month, on March 16 to be precise. The film stars Jennifer Garner. To promote the film, Garner is now the subject of a cover story in Vanity Fair<\/i><\/a>. And, as cover-story subjects sometimes do, Garner has participated in a video posted on the magazine\u2019s website \u2014 and the video, in this case, consists of Garner reading the children\u2019s-book parody Go the F**k to Sleep<\/i>.<\/p>\n

More on that in a minute. First, an excerpt from the article that looks at how Garner was working on the film while her personal life was turning into tabloid fodder:<\/p>\n

It was during this trying time last summer that Garner was working on Miracles from Heaven<\/i>, directed by relative newcomer Patricia Riggen (The 33<\/i>). Perhaps it\u2019s no coincidence that she gives one of her most emotionally wrenching performances to date in what is her first lead in years. Garner plays a real-life Texas mother, Christy Beam, whose young daughter Annabel (played by Kylie Rogers) is ill with a life-threatening disease that miraculously heals after a near-fatal fall from a tree. (The film is based on Beam\u2019s best-selling memoir of the same name.) Think Terms of Endearment<\/i> with a fair share of spiritual overtones. \u201cThe book kept me up all night,\u201d Garner says. \u201cIt was so compelling and tangible. Her pain, the daughter\u2019s pain, what it did to the family. Christy was so steadfast; she didn\u2019t try to whitewash what was wrong with her daughter. She was next to her helping her know she was strong enough to get through it, and I wanted to be in her skin.\u201d She adds: \u201cI certainly was never on set thinking of my own life, except for my own gratitude. One of the great gifts of the movie was the perspective that came with it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And now, the (uncensored) video, in which Garner \u2014 who plays a real-life Christian in Miracles from Heaven<\/i> \u2014 assumes the persona of a parent swearing at a child:<\/p>\n