The Eyes of Tammy Faye
From the 1960's to the 1980's, evangelist Jim Baker and his ambitious wife, Tammy Faye, rose from humble beginnings to to build an empire based on big-time evangelical Christianity--only for the couple to fall from grace because of some all-too-human sins.
- Released: 2021-09-17
- Runtime: 126 minutes
- Genre: Drama, History
- Stars: Jessica Chastain, Andrew Garfield, Cherry Jones, Vincent D'Onofrio, Mark Wystrach, Sam Jaeger, Louis Cancelmi, Gabriel Olds, Fredric Lehne, Chandler Head, Jay Huguley, Dan Johnson, Michael MacCauley, Grant Owens, Coley Campany, Craig Newkirk, Wes Jetton, Jess Weixler, Maurie Speed, Lindsay Ayliffe, Julie P. Tuggle, Kimberly Ann Parker, Dana Marks, Alan Boell, Randy Havens, Lila Jane Meadows, Carolyn Mints, Kelly Borgnis, Kelsi Chandler, Joe Ando-Hirsh, John Johnson, Grayson Carter, Kimberly Ann Parker, Hugh Downs, Alan Dale, Ronald Reagan, Jay Leno
- Director: Michael Showalter
Comments
- danielleshaffi - 20 February 2024
I really enjoyed it.
I didn't really know much about Tammy Faye or her husband before watching this but I truly believed Tammy just wanted people to love God.
I enjoyed watching but I feel like it was 2 hours long and I still wasn't satisfied. It was like parts were missing or they couldn't fit the whole story in it. I could have been 3 hours long though and I still would have watched and loved it. Maybe it would have been better as a 4 part series, just so they could add more detail. They only really mentioned briefly that Jim had sex with other men.. surely there has to be more to that story.
I rated it a 7-10 because I enjoyed it but it definitely had the potential to be a 9-10. - fischer_patrick - 7 February 2023
Carried by Two Great Leads
This film was absolutely carried by the two lead actors: Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield. They both gave award worthy performances. The story was interesting and pulled back the curtain on the greed, ego, and power seeking of the modern televangelist as we know it today. The film showcases numerous important figures of the Christian right and subtly offers insight into the marriage between Evangelicalism and the Republican Party. The film mainly focuses on the rise and fall of the marriage of Jim and Tammy Faye Baker. It does a good job of tracking how their marriage began to crumble as their televangelist empire began to rise. The final act shows how everything fell apart and also did what I thought was impossible: make the audience feel sympathy for Tammy Faye.
