Free in Deed

Free in Deed (2017)

When a single mother brings her young boy to church for healing, this lonely pentecostal minister is forced to confront the seemingly incurable illness of the child... and his own demons as well. The more he prays, the more things seem to spiral out of his control.

Date of release
2017-09-08
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (6)
Runtime
1h 38m
Genres
Drama
Director
Jake Mahaffy

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 1

Free in Deed is a 2015 drama film written, directed, and co-edited by Jake Mahaffy. An international co-production between the United States and New Zealand, it stars David Harewood, Edwina Findley, and RaJay Chandler. It is based on true events, and tells the story of a lonely Pentecostal minister who attempts to perform a miracle when a young woman asks him to heal her son from a seemingly incurable illness.

Production

Free in Deed is based on the real-life story of Milwaukee minister Ray Hemphill, who was convicted of child abuse for his attempt to perform an exorcism on an eight-year-old boy in 2003. Jake Mahaffy said about adapting the story into the film:

I had been raised religious and then deconverted, so I felt I have both the familiarity and objectivity to represent this situation. The point is not to make a reenactment or docudrama but to take the emotional truth of the circumstance and recreate that for audiences. People who have never been to church or never been poor or never been to America should feel what it would be like rather than only know the facts and details of the news story.

Free in Deed was produced by Greyshack Films and Votiv Films, in association with the New Zealand Film Commission. Principal photography took place in Memphis, Tennessee in February 2014.

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