Parents' Guide to Christian Mingle

This movie features nice performances by Moore and Chabert. However, the movie suggests that the failure of a relationship that has hardly begun would push someone to quit her job, move to a poor Mexican village, and enter into a personal relationship with Jesus. All of that might be possible in real life, but the motivation for the main character to make such drastic life changes is simply not in evidence here. Director Corbin Bernsen, who wrote the script and plays a born-again bicycle repair man, oversimplifies this complex process far more than even a movie requires. John O'Hurley plays a baldness cure inventor, and the possibility that it doesn't work creates a crisis of conscience in Gwyneth. She's been assigned to market the stuff and she doesn't want to have to lie. This is farfetched. Why does no one ask if there are clinical trials to back up the product's claims?

Oddly, most followers of Jesus tout the claim that God loves everyone, which is a policy of religious inclusiveness, but this plot hangs on the exclusionary position born-again parents take when they fear their son is being wooed by a non-believer. It's possible that the movie was made with the intention of attracting a mainstream audience, but it's not a stretch to guess that only the already faithful will be interested.