Sister Aimee: The Aimee Semple McPherson Story (2005)

Sister Aimee: The Aimee Semple McPherson Story (2005)
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Richard Rossi's low-budget, direct-to-video feature Sister Aimee dramatizes the life of controversial American evangelist McPherson (here portrayed by Mimi Michaels). One of the leaders of the prohibition movement of the 1920s (alongside Billy Sunday) and the sort of person for whom the term "fire and brimstone" was invented, Aimee drew a wealth of media attention not only for her behind-the-pulpit antics, but thanks to a rocky personal life that witnessed her marrying and divorcing three separate men. Particularly strange was a 1927 incident, when Semple visited the beach - and promptly disappeared - only to turn up not long after and insist that she had been kidnapped. Rossi chronicles these events with the assist of a cast that includes Rance Howard and Joe Gonzalez. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi

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Starring:
Mimi Michaels, Rance Howard, (more)
Director(s):
Richard Rossi
Theatrical MPAA Rating:
PG
Format(s):
DVD
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Richard Rossi's low-budget, direct-to-video feature Sister Aimee dramatizes the life of controversial American evangelist McPherson (here portrayed by Mimi Michaels). One of the leaders of the prohibition movement of the 1920s (alongside Billy Sunday) and the sort of person for whom the term "fire and brimstone" was invented, Aimee drew a wealth of media attention not only for her behind-the-pulpit antics, but thanks to a rocky personal life that witnessed her marrying and divorcing three separate men. Particularly strange was a 1927 incident, when Semple visited the beach - and promptly disappeared - only to turn up not long after and insist that she had been kidnapped. Rossi chronicles these events with the assist of a cast that includes Rance Howard and Joe Gonzalez. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi

Theatrical Feature Running Time:
80 mins

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Director(s):
Richard Rossi
Writer(s):
Richard Rossi
Theatrical MPAA Rating:
PG
Categories:
Documentary
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Valerie E.

***** Five stars out of Five. If you are a person who loves creative independent films made with heart and creativity where money was lacking, and want to explore sensuality's connection to religion, you'll love this film. Writer-director-actor Richard Rossi's film focuses on the Pentecostal extraordinary woman who suffered bi-polar disorder but still built a temple of Hollywood proportions before vanishing at Venice Beach in 1927. I can't wait for Rossi's next film on Roberto Clemente.

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Juianna L.

**** Four Stars our of Five. I didn't know the film was made under impossible no-budget conditions at first so I wondered what was going on for a few minutes in terms of the look and feel of things being shot the way it was, but i was drawn in rather quickly because I love films by Bergman and Fellini and this film is very much in that vein. Sister Aimee was a great and grandiose woman and I think Richard Rossi really understood her psychologically and pulled me in to her world. Mimi Michaels played her really well and I think this is a film that was made by an artist with what he had to work with and it is a film for people who prefer character-driven idiosyncratic biographies. The comparison has been made by others to Bergman's Persona and I agree. I loved the handheld camera, close-ups on the faces and hands, and the sense of her emotionally dysfunctional role as the female Moses and religious idol.

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Ashley A.

I am in tears and speechless after watching this powerful film, the end, which I won't spoil had me in tears and the movie captured what I go through as a woman. Richard Rossi is an amazing visionary! The film is more European in its style, and is character-driven and psychologically deep, showing the claustophobia and frailty of Sister Aimee, a powerful woman.

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