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A televangelist couple rises to fame before financial improprieties and scandal topple their empire.
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An intimate look at the extraordinary rise, fall, and redemption of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker. In the 1970s and '80s, Tammy Faye and her husband Jim Bakker, rose from humble beginnings to create the world's largest religious broadcasting network and theme park, and were revered for their message of love, acceptance, and prosperity. Tammy Faye was legendary for her indelible eyelashes, her idiosyncratic singing, and her eagerness to embrace people from all walks of life. However, it wasn't long before financial improprieties, scheming rivals, and scandal toppled their carefully constructed empire.
"A movie worth it for the performances - earning Jessica Chastain her first Oscar. 'The Eyes of Tammy Faye' follows the tumultuous story of an American missionary couple, Tammy Faye (Chastain) and Jim Bakker (Andrew Garfield), who worked in a religious television channel. They became icons in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s. Faye's image is well preserved in the movie, in the sense that she seems a victim in this environment and one of the only missionaries trying to be inclusive even with the controversial values of religion. It is a relevant production about religious intolerance, conservatism and also about media control."