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Eyes of Tammy Faye
MARIA DUARTE recommends a biopic charting the extraordinary rise and fall of televangelists Tammy Faye Bakker and her husband Jim, who championed tolerance and had a devoted following
Eyes of Tammy Faye
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
The Eyes of Tammy Faye (12A)
Directed by Michael Showalter
DESCRIBED as the Barbie and Ken of televangelists, this compelling drama depicts the epic rise and fall of trailblazing Christian power couple Tammy Faye Bakker and her husband Jim.
Based on the documentary of the same name by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, it is viewed through the eyes of Tammy Faye, played by Jessica Chastain in a transformative and Oscar-worthy performance.
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