USA | 2008
101 minutes Director: Larry Charles Photography: Anthony Hardwick Editors: Jeffrey Werner, Jeff Groth, Christian Kinnard With: Bill Maher, Julie Maher, Kathie Maher, Andrew Newberg, John Westcott Festivals: Toronto 2008
In English, Spanish and Arabic, with English subtitles
Godless and proud of it, comedian Bill Maher travels across America and to Jerusalem, the Vatican and the Netherlands. Abetted by the director of Borat, he provokes a parade of rabid true believers to defend their faith(s). A wily televangelist, an egomaniacal rabbi, a studly ‘reformer’ of gays, an actor who plays Jesus, crucified daily at an evangelical theme park; these guys and more provide irrefutable evidence that religion can do your head in. “If you have something you hate, or something you want to humiliate in as public a way as possible, make a documentary! This is precisely what Bill Maher does... It’s a movie meant to ‘prove’ that religious belief and intelligence are mutually exclusive. If you are already prone to believe that, then this movie is for you.” — Christianity Today
“Skeptics unite: You have nothing to lose but your inhibitions. That, in sum, is the underlying message of [the] brilliant, incendiary Religulous.” — Robert Koehler, Variety
“Religulous is a riot.”
— James Croot, Otago Daily Times
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