In addition to the screenplay, the director of photography does an impeccable job bringing the characters to life. The stories that follow show us the author's real struggles with faith and how he comes to grips with his own spirituality aside from the oppressive, rigid religious home he was raised in. He ends up at Reed College, a liberal college in Oregon. He's then faced with a situation that shakes him to his core. The movie follows a young kid named Don as he grows up in a Southern Baptist church in Texas, the only child of a uber-religious single mother and absentee deadbeat dad he refers to as "the hobo." Don is about to graduate from High School and is headed to Bible College. While the book- that sold over 1.2 Million Copies- is one of my favorites, it doesn't really lend itself well to a movie screenplay. When I heard Donald Miller's book was being made into a movie, I was half elated, half skeptical.
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