`Apostle': Take It on Faith From: The Washington Post | Date: January 30, 1998| Author: | Copyright 1998 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Stubborn and nearly impervious to interpretation, Robert Duvall's "The Apostle" insists on being what it is about and nothing else. It expresses no agenda except the storyteller's quest for the truth. And if it tells us something we all know, and if some may wonder at the point of the trip, the answer has to be: The trip is the point of the trip.

Duvall, who also wrote and directed, plays the Apostle E.F., once a flamboyant Texas preacher named Sonny Dewey now fallen on hard times through acts he believes himself not responsible for, although nobody else was in his pants when he was ...

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