Jesus' Son

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Jesus' Son ★★ 1999 (R)

Crudup gives a fine performance as a sweet, passive, bungling druggie known only as FH (which stands for F* * * head). He falls for reckless heroin-addict Michelle (Morton), ODs, gets saved, gets dumped, gets in a car wreck, and eventually cleans up and finds some kind of peace working in an Arizona nursing home. There's really not much plot; it's the characters that carry things along. Film is set in the ‘70s and based on Dennis Johnson's 1992 collection of short stories. 109m/C VHS, DVD . Billy Crudup, Samantha Morton, Denis Leary, Holly Hunter, Dennis Hopper, Jack Black, Will Patton, Greg Germann; D: Alison Maclean; W: Elizabeth Cuthrell, David Urrutia, Oren Moverman; C: Adam Kimmel; M: Joe Henry.