'Saved!' was ahead of its time
Twenty years later, the satire veers uncomfortably close to documentary.
When I walked out of the theater after seeing Saved! 20 years ago, I was conflicted. I’d laughed quite a bit during Brian Dannelly’s satire of evangelical life, but it was often uncomfortable. Was Dannelly a Christian laughing at the extremes of his faith? Or were his attempts to find humor in American religion cynical and mean-spirited? As a rabidly Re…
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