![]() ![]() Grace is assigned a public defender named Tom Endler (Jesse Metcalfe), a young, idealistic, and faithless Eventually, her case moves beyond the school board and into the public eye whenīrooke's parents file suit. She's immediately pulled into a hearing and learns that she has broken school, state,Īnd federal guidelines. The word out that "God" is being taught in the public classroom. The questions, quoting Scripture, and relates her answer to the lesson, but her response lands her in hot water when one of her other students gets One of her students, Brooke (Hayley Orrantia), about how the lesson relates to several passages she has recently read in Scripture. and Mahatma Gandhi, she answers a question posed by Oneĭay in class, teaching about such prominent historical figures as Martin Luther King, Jr. Grace Wesley (Melissa Joan Hart) is an everyday high school history teacher who lives a life of faith but who largely keeps her beliefs to herself. Sermons for government inspection, and a young man who discovers his calling to minister. Stories, including the student whose question ignited the firestorm, a young woman recently free of cancer, a pastor who refuses to submit his Theįurther aims to prove the existence of Jesus Christ, with several experts taking the stand in the film's middle stretch, while it also follows several side Hold firm to her faith, the young and idealistic nonbeliever who defends her, and a suffocating prosecution that is out to make an example of her. Inspired by a number of real cases in which religious speech was stymied inĪcademia and eventually, in some way, put on trial - cases which are listed in the film's credits - the film tells a fictional story of a woman who risks One's beliefs not in the public square but rather in the public school. With God's Not Dead 2, the genre tackles the question of faith and speaking Workhorse for compelling narratives and top-tier performances. The Courtroom Drama genre has produced some of the finest films ever made - 12 Angry Men, A Few Good Men - and it has proven a reliable cinema (and Reviewed by Martin Liebman, September 11, 2018
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