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Wise Blood

An American Masterpiece!

1979 · PG · 1h 46m

Directed by John Huston

6.4

TMDB audience score
115 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.

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Cast

  • Brad Dourif
    Hazel Motes

  • Dan Shor
    Enoch Emory

  • Amy Wright
    Sabbath Lily

  • Harry Dean Stanton
    Asa Hawks

  • Mary Nell Santacroce
    Landlady

  • Ned Beatty
    Hoover Shoates

  • John Huston
    Grandfather

  • William Hickey
    Preacher

  • J.L. Parker
    Karl

  • Marvin Sapp
    Raymond

  • Richard Earle
    Jakob Winslow

  • Herb Kossover
    Jacob Wood

  • Betty Lou Groover
    Leora Watts

  • John Tyndall
    Loki Martinson

  • Gillaaron Houck
    Stranger #1

  • Philip Mixer
    Stranger #2

  • Sharon Johnson
    Stranger #3

  • Joe Dorsey
    Stranger #4