Cast
Ethan Hawke Amanda Seyfried Cedric The Entertainer Victoria Hill Philip Ettinger Michael Gaston
Credits
Written by: 
Paul Schrader
Plot
A pastor of a small, dwindling Dutch Reformed church in upstate New York, Ernst Toller, who is grieving his son's death and ill, is shaken by a suicidal climate activist and his pregnant wife, in a spare, intense drama with Ethan Hawke.
Sinekatalog’s take
A spare, intense and powerful drama of faith and despair.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.1 / 10 (68,695 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
If you liked this
Picked by director, genre, era and shared cast. Titles only, no spoilers.
- Night Moves (2013) 2013 · Kelly Reichardt · IMDb 6.1 · Viewers also liked
- The Road 2009 · John Hillcoat · IMDb 7.2 · Viewers also liked
- The Last Temptation of Christ 1988 · Martin Scorsese · IMDb 7.5 · Viewers also liked
- Gone Girl 2014 · David Fincher · IMDb 8.1 · Same movement
- The Club 2015 · Pablo Larraín · IMDb 7.2 · Similar genres
- Stoker 2013 · Park Chan-wook · IMDb 6.7 · Similar genres