Machine Gun Preacher (2011) on Netflix
R20112h 9mActionBiographyCrime
Sam Childers, a heroin-using biker, leaves prison and finds his wife Lynn has become a Christian. A violent night sends him to church, and a missionary trip takes him to Uganda.
- Netflix4.0/5
- IMDb6.7/1071,657 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes28%
Trailer
Plot summary
After prison, Sam Childers comes home to Pennsylvania and learns that his wife Lynn has quit stripping and become a Christian. He goes back to drugs and crime with Donnie, and after a violent night he attends church, is baptized, and finds work in construction. Meeting a preacher from Africa takes him to Uganda to put up houses for refugees, and he asks Deng, a soldier with the Sudan People's Liberation Army, to drive him north into Sudan. Deng tells him the north is a war zone.
Cast
- Barbara Covenas Shannon Wallace
- Ryann Camposas Paige #1
- Misty Millsas Biker Chick
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Machine Gun Preacher (2011)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The screenplay by Jason Keller was adapted from two real sources: Sam Childers' book Another Man's War and Ian Urbina's Vanity Fair article "Get Kony".
- Globally, Machine Gun Preacher made just $3 million at the box office, a mere tenth of the film's $30 million budget.
- Chris Cornell wrote the song "The Keeper" for the film and performed it on the Late Show with David Letterman and Jimmy Kimmel Live! to promote it.
- Sam Childers, the man whose story the film tells, has shown a shortened and edited version of it at Christian charity events.
