The Grace Card

It is an assured film, yet when the inevitable moment of truth arrives, the film lapses into melodrama, contrivance and improbability.

"The Grace Card," the first filmmaking venture of the Calvary Church near Memphis, Tenn., starts promisingly, telling the story of two policemen, Sam (Michael Higgenbottom), white, middle-aged and deeply troubled, and Mac (Michael Joiner), a young African American eager to become a full-time pastor.
Mac's grief over witnessing the death of his 5-year-old son at the hands of a drug dealer has ravaged his marriage and damaged his surviving son (Rob Erickson), who's about to be thrown out of the prep school his parents can ill afford. [...]

di Kevin Thomas, articolo completo (1413 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 25 febbraio 2011