Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party
Preacher's kid Henry Gamble is turning 17. The film depicts the struggle between teenagers and their parents as they try to reconcile their sheltered Christian lifestyles with the complexities of adulthood, sex and the secular world.
30 September 1954, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
14 September 1971, Chicago, Illinois, USA
January 05, 2016
Cone, who is bighearted toward but not uncritical of his Bible-thumping characters, has a keen sense of seemingly incongruous details ...
February 16, 2016
Where is love? Within a brightly appointed suburban home, the spirit and the flesh: every character is alive and so gently fearful of what moment may pass after this one. Tone matters... Bright, bumptious and loving,
January 07, 2016
A chance to probe evangelical Christianity, with all of its contradictions and intolerance, by someone definitely in the know is blown here by an undue emphasis on melodrama.
January 07, 2016
"Henry Gamble's Birthday Party" feels sincere but not accomplished, empathetic but not deep.
October 15, 2015
The acting is so naturalistic and the various subplots are so well balanced that the confused piety of the characters gradually begins to feel like anyone else's everyday problems.
February 22, 2016
An enjoyable, but unconvincing look at religious hypocrisy and Christianity's struggle to accept changing social norms.
February 24, 2016
...carves out a truly unique space in the gap that exists between agnostic Hollywood filmmaking and church-funded, faith-based indies.
