The Ledge (2011) on Netflix
Gavin Nichols, an atheist, lives down the hall from Joe Harris, a fundamentalist Christian, and Joe's wife Shana. A debate about religion leaves Gavin on a high-rise ledge, an hour to choose.
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Plot summary
Gavin Nichols works at a hotel, where Shana Harris has just arrived. She shares an apartment down the hall from his with her husband Joe, a fundamentalist Christian. One evening Gavin and Joe fall into a discussion of religion that becomes an argument, and Shana asks Gavin to leave. At the hotel Shana watches Gavin calm a grief-stricken employee by talking about God. Walking together, she tells him she was once a drug addict and a prostitute, that a client beat her, and that Joe found her in a church sanctuary and helped her change her life. She says Joe wants them to move to Uganda. Detective Hollis Lucetti, meanwhile, learns that he is sterile and asks his wife who fathered their children.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Ledge (2011)
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- Writer-director Matthew Chapman built the film around Gavin as what he intended to be the first openly atheist hero in a story about religious conflict, and described The Ledge itself as the first pro-atheist feature film ever released in America.
- After the film came out, Catholic League president Bill Donohue publicly attacked it, and director Matthew Chapman responded to him directly.
