The Rapture with Mimi Rogers: DVD Cover

    The Rapture Director: Michael Tolkin Cast: Mimi Rogers, David Duchovny, Patrick Bauchau, Carole R. Davis

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    • DVD Release Date: 11/02/2004
    • Original Release: 1991
    • Rating: Rated R
    • Sales Rank: 30,197

    Viewer Rating: (4 ratings)

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    Closed Caption; Commentary by writer/director Michael Tolkin, Mimi Rogers, David Duchovny, and Patrick Bauchau; Original theatrical trailer

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    Scene Index

    Side #1 --
    1. Title/"Hold for the Number" [4:06]
    2. On the Hunt [5:16]
    3. "Tell Me a Story" [4:54]
    4. Righteousness and Faith [3:29]
    5. Tattooed Pearl [5:34]
    6. Sharon's Guilty Conscience [7:11]
    7. Turning Point [5:59]
    8. "I Found God" [3:47]
    9. The Boy [5:24]
    10. Partners in Life [3:11]
    11. Belief in Your Job [6:17]
    12. Sharon's Special Purpose [3:57]
    13. Waiting in the Desert [5:40]
    14. A Helping Hand [3:29]
    15. One More Chance [5:09]
    16. Mary's Death [4:30]
    17. The Confession [6:16]
    18. Repentance [6:01]
    19. Day of Judgment [6:28]
    20. End Credits [3:19]

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    Editorial Reviews

    An audacious film about faith, The Rapture is a contemporary fantasy that keeps its feet unnervingly planted in reality even as reality starts to collapse. Mimi Rogers, in a strikingly accomplished performance, stars as Sharon, a telephone operator who spends her off-hours engaging in casual group sex to blot out her boredom. By chance, she becomes aware of a small Christian sect whose members believe that they have found a child with the gift of prophecy who has seen the upcoming end times. Slowly but steadily, Sharon finds herself drawn to this group, and one night she abruptly turns a corner, renounces her old life, and embraces fundamentalism with passion. She marries one of her former lovers, Randy (David Duchovny), who takes up Sharon's evangelical fervor to atone for his past as a hired killer, and they have a daughter. All seems peaceful until Randy is unexpectedly murdered, and Sharon takes her child to the desert to await the rapture that will bring the chosen to heaven. The film neither supports nor scoffs at Sharon's views, and the superb performances add immeasurably to a film that presents the unbelievable (and unthinkable) at face value, making it seem oddly plausible in the process. Michael Tolkin has also written and/or directed such films as The Player (1992), directed by Robert Altman, and The New Age (1994), both of which also skewer contemporary American society as shallow, materialistic, and desperate for something authentic to believe in. Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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    Raptureby Anonymous

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    September 15, 2005: A must see- exceptional movie and shocking tale. Not a light-hearted feel-good flick. It is, however, just the ticket for something thought provoking and deep. Highly controversial and secular "The Rapture" is a roller-coaster journey of a gripping portrayal with a strong message for "Christian" and non-christian audiences alike. Adult content and scenarios. Not recommended for children or those under age. Be prepared to be subjected to that which will make you "uncomfortable". The Rapture will take you out of the comfort-zone and into the heart of desperation. Moving and emotional this film brings home the sense of what it is to be "lost"... and searching. Mimi Rogers', (Lost In Space), and David Duchovny, (X-Files) star. Things begin to happen- seers of visions and dreamers of dreams to those whom God has chosen and whom already have faith, realize the time has come and is approaching for the end days. Where are those who do not subscribe to this belief? What will happen to them? Can hearts be changed? Can souls be saved? Will it be in time? Is it beware the false-prophet or something even more deeply disturbing as self-deception? From one end of the human fallibility spectrum to the other, and equally riveting are folly and false-hood, susceptibility and the question to what length? This movie brings home personal questions of faith, and strikes at the core. It is unsettling and raises to mind many deep questions that will leave the viewer pondering long after. For this reason, and with disclaimer so-stated, makes this movie an exceptional choice for one prepared to have their thoughts and heart definitely wrenched and stirred, plummeted into dark chasms of the mind, compelled to hope and heights of the spirit, reservations, where we draw the line, and whether it is truly God who does not forgive or rather ourselves who can not, will not, or are incapable of forgiving ourselves! The Thought Provoking Movie Choice Beyond Any Others! ***** (I watch this movie as a tradition with friends every year for many, many years).

    Raptureby Anonymous

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    November 28, 2004: Sharon is converted from her hedonistic but empty lifestyle. She becomes in some respects a professed bible-believing Christian, but unfortunately receives her interpretations from a cult that relies more on mystical dreams and visions than the plain word of God. Unfortunately, although some reviews state it as 'embraces fundamentalism', this cult embraced by Sharon (Mimi Rogers) as portrayed in this fictional account, betrays tenets of 'fundamentalism' which by its very nature is fidelity to the fundamental revelations of God -- of which a very basic one is set forth by Jesus in the Matthew 24th account--IF THEY SAY HE IS IN THE DESERT, GO NOT FORTH. Sharon acting on cult instructions and her own vision takes her daughter to the desert to await the 2nd Coming. She blames God rather than the traditional Christian teaching (Catholic and Protestant alike) of Satanic deception for this and makes a conscious choice to forfeit her salvation. To the extent that this wakes people up to the very real events that are currently transpiring and for which Christians are daily marginalized, this is far better than nothing. As theology, it is deficient. However, I must confess that I found the sounding of Gabriel's horn and the end time horsemen of the Apocalypse scenes haunting and worthy of a rewatch.


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