Director Paul Schrader (or his boss) is anxious for you to understand that this parable of a present-day miracle worker, complete with stigmata, is meant to be funny. The winks and hints begin immediately, with a postmodern credits sequence of 1950s-ish drawings and mismatched typefaces, and they continue relentlessly by way of a cool-cat drum-and-guitar accompaniment reminiscent of Get Shorty (this, like that, originated as an Elmore Leonard novel), and they extend into the peachy color, the angular compositions, the casting of Christopher Walken as a former crackpot minister and current recreational-vehicle salesman, Tom Arnold as a religious reactionary stumping for a return to the Latin Mass, and Janeane Garofalo as a sensation-seeking newshound. The result is distinctly offbeat, but off in other areas as well: off-key, off-tone, off-target. With Skeet Ulrich, Bridget Fonda, Gina Gershon, Paul Mazursky. (1997) — Duncan Shepherd
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