A Question of Faith (2017) User Reviews

The Mysterious Intersections of the Lord

[lavatch · 7/10 · 1 February 2018]

"A Question of Faith" is about tragic intersections involving three families. At one of the lowest points of the film, it appears as though one of the characters may spend most of her adult life in the big house for vehicular manslaughter. But due to the power of faith, all three families end up in the house of the Lord.

The film opens with a passage from Psalms: "When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears, and rescues them from all their troubles." Except in the film, it is first and foremost the strong women who rescue their angry and wayward menfolk from becoming backsliders. Indeed, the most moving moments of the film are the scenes where the wives of the pastor and the contractor redirect the men towards the straight and narrow path of God's plan.

While much of the film was maudlin and far-fetched, it was nonetheless a cleverly constructed plot involving the three families. At one of the key junctures during the reawakening of the men, one character says, "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding." The film was literally about "heart" in the transfer of one organ to another human being. But the more moving message was about the heartfelt experience of unconditional forgiveness in the face of tragedy.

What would men do without their faithful women?

[jacobs-greenwood · 7/10 · 13 October 2017]

This faith-based gem begins with a Bible verse from Psalm 34:17 "The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears them; he delivers them from all their troubles" and also contains several other references and quotes from Holy Scripture including John 11:25-26, Proverbs 3:4-6, and Mark 11:25. However, two others that are beautifully demonstrated in the lives of its female characters are from Proverbs 31: verse 10 "A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies" and verse 26 "She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue". Without them, and the sage words of the lead character's father, there's no telling where the protagonist - Pastor David Newman, played by Richard T. Jones - would have ended up by story's end.

The narrative is a bit confusing at first - about a dozen characters are introduced in short order and it's unclear how their stories are interrelated - but stay with it. Without giving away the plot, there are many Biblical themes (perhaps too many?) included in this 104-minute film. Per its title, faith is a big one, but there's also trust, forgiveness, mercy, redemption, and what a Christian marriage should look like; each of these could warrant their own movie. While God is obviously front-and-center throughout, it's great to have Jesus included in the dialogue since many in this genre leave out the Name Above All Names.

The real strength of A Question of Faith (2017) is its lead actors and their realistic characterizations: the aforementioned Jones in the leading role Pastor Newman and Kim Fields as his loving, supportive and strong wife Theresa; C. Thomas Howell as angry contractor John Danielson and Renée O'Connor as his faithful wife Mary; the previously mentioned Gregory Alan Williams as Newman's father, who's also retiring his Senior Pastor position to make room for his son, and especially Donna Biscoe as Patricia, his equally wise wife and instructive mother. There's also Cecil King as associate pastor T.C. Stallings, Jaci Velasquez as restaurant owner Kate Hernandez, mother of teen-aged Maria (played by Karen Valero), and soprano Amber Nelon Thompson as the Danielson's daughter Michelle, whose powerful yet angelic voice just might bring a tear to your eye.

The life lessons are invaluable, including some secular ones like "don't text while driving" and "be an organ donor", and the story is good enough that its intended audience will give the filmmakers grace for the contrivances, particularly its expedient ending.

Just Poorly Written

[monkeygorilla-44691 · 2/10 · 22 October 2018]

This movie could've been good but it's more like a copycat of the grace card but not good at all. Grace card had some bad acting but better acting then this and it had a waayyyy better story. Grace card was a great movie this is just dumb and makes you hate the characters. Pulling the plug of your 11 year old after a week ya right that was what made me write this. Also why would I feel bad for the little texting chick lol and her mom who just needed her to do deliveries that's stupid and the parents of the 35 year old daughter are awful actors and the dad only cared about her record deal. Plus the cheater who beats his wife in why did I get married is the worse character to watch in this role. This is a dumb movie. I didn't even finish I just can't !!!!!!!!!

Everyone must see.

[sarahcaughran · 10/10 · 27 June 2018]

I don't care who you are or what you believe, everyone of all ages should see this movie. Forgiveness is SO powerful.

Bad acting

[Hassanhadi90 · 1/10 · 26 December 2019]

The horobale acting without emotions runes the story and movie , the idea is good somehow about don't text when you driving but it's rare to give up hope and donating your little child's organ if you talking about Christian faith you have to be patiens too and trust God to heal your boy, anyways acting is really bad and terible emotions during sad scenes.

I can't Imagine

[mellotr · 8/10 · 30 November 2019]

This movie shouldn't be judged by being a "Christian" movie. It's a realistic and current to what's happening today. Even if you don't pray or believe in a specific God. Everyone questions why are we here? What is our purpose in life? It's faith, and things happen for a reason. The movie left me feeling satisfied, grateful and at peace. It's a beautiful movie that touches your heart.

A question of cringe

[blades_n_stone · 2/10 · 26 January 2020]

Pureflix does it again. By it I mean make a sloppy written mess with bad audio mixing. Get ready for struggling to hear while having your eardrums ruptured in this mumble mess that has background music constantly overwhelming the actors. A Cringe inducing script filled with stilted interactions plainly shows there were only two real actors in this film. Don't look for reality here. Between hospital staff sharing the personal identity of organ donors, police revealing the full name of minors involved in investigation, and more half assed crisis of faith then you can shake a stick at. This movie will pound two things into your head. The sound editor should be fired. And don't text and drive. Even though if you kill someone that was all God's plan and you will be totally forgiven. Yep in a world run by a puppet master we are all unwilling pawns in his murderous, mysterious ways. Save your time, money and ear drums. This cringe bait is not worth any.

Relatable and Realistic

[kaipeace · 9/10 · 29 April 2018]

A story about the reality of being a Christian in today's world and the level of faith and forgiveness that we should aspire to. I left this movie and immediately recommended it to friends and family. If you can't find something worthwhile in this movie then you honestly went in to it wanting to dislike it. Solid performances from all involved and well shot. Definitely recommended.

Full of Propaganda

[lyha-61756 · 1/10 · 23 November 2018]

This movie literally influences religious people to hand over their organs to arrogant ungrateful ingrates. First of all organ donation is ones own choice. This movie is pushing an agenda due to low organ donations. I myself, will never willingly give over any organ from my body or anyone else I love. "Ty" needs to do better.

Another bland Christian movie

[edgy-827-486965 · 1/10 · 12 November 2017]

Its watchable and in this film you can see - this guys really try cover they religion message under some more reasonable and modern messages about how bad when you texting in car, and about how good when you donate organs, but don't do bad - stop texting in car and go and donate your organs, even if in REAL world this person do not need and cant accept this organ... well do I say about not texting in a car! Don't do it! Someone can really hurt and you go to jail and someone need to donate organ... yeeees its REALLY SO repetitive. And lousy as hell, that part where they need exactly 11 year old boy, when common sense and all rule of biology tell them - for good plot you need teens same age! Not a 11 year old boy and just literally grow woman, and if you do this - just don't tall audience about - hypoxia, because its exactly what she get! Well, what can I say - Christian writers not good educated one. And don't texting in the car! Even if you don't texting anywhere past five years.

A shocking surprise

[oigentertainment66 · 8/10 · 29 April 2018]

Ok, I walked in on a Sunday late afternoon while my family was watching this show, I thought to myself, oh goodness one of those films where they want you to evaluate your life and be bored watching, well, what a awesome surprise., as my wife explained what happened that led to the amazing end I had to dry the tears away. This is such a powerful message, not trying to win souls, but trying to get a message across about forgiveness. The actors were awesome, and I was really excited to see the forever young Kim Fields, Good Job to the writer and director in bringing the feeling of the message to life.

A question of becoming an organ donor

[robinbenjaweh · 1/10 · 21 March 2018]

Although the movie has a great message about overcoming trials and forgiveness, the major theme seems to be to make people organ donor. In fact it is mentioned so many times, this movie has almost become one big commercial. That fact takes away a lot of the focus of this movie. Such a shame...

Good family movie , too bad anti-Christians have given bad reviews

[castle23-189-26613 · 10/10 · 28 January 2018]

When looking at IMDB just be aware that many good Christian movies are heavily given one star ratings in order for the movies to appear so-so in the ratings. I would recommend judging on your own since this appears to be a concerted effort from those anti-Christian.

We watched this as a family. It may be a little heavy for younger viewers in regards to grief and tragedy. Nothing graphic is shown. It is the situation that may be a bit sullen. Good messages on how one mistake can change your life as well as the difficulty of accepting loss.

Barely worth watching even if you are very christian

[pollitopluma · 2/10 · 1 March 2018]

Poor acting and a bad script help make this a movie you wont mind missing. If you are one of the many American Christians than you can probably watch this without feeling like you wasted your day. Everyone else should probably look elsewhere for their film of the evening. Considering that this movie has a very clear and specific demographic that has low standards, I feel the movie fails to even succeed at this one goal. Sorry if any Christians are insulted by this but this brainwashing film wasnt even good as satire in other groups.

Important Message

[ghgaskins · 9/10 · 24 April 2020]

I tend to dislike religious based movie dramas. The reason is that they tend to be corny, biased with bad writing and acting. This is not the case for this movie for Lifetime. There are a lot of messages, and enough for everyone to relate. Anger, racism, sorrow, self-pity, generosity and a host of a few other obvious gems.

I like this movie because Kim Fields, C. Thomas Howell, and Richard Jones bring their big time Hollywood experience to a not so common quality family story that is made believable and uplifts the remaining supporting cast.

The story is predictable, but you can't wait to see it all come together.

Have plenty of kleenex on hand

[setthehook-95587 · 8/10 · 15 August 2018]

Went through about 15 kleenex and I am a 60 year old man. Very touching movie about forgiveness and faith. Great acting all around. Loved it. Now I need to go buy some more kleenex.

Wonderful! ♥

[gloriaflabbi · 10/10 · 8 October 2018]

Great movie! I liked it a lot, it transmits a beautiful message of faith, love, forgiveness .. And also a good teaching not to be distracted, no phone while driving! We think about the safety of our life and that of others 🙏 Absolutely to see!

Forgiveness is good for the soul!!!!

[jena_hardin · 10/10 · 12 June 2018]

I have skipped watching this movie many times on Netflix because I knew it would make me cry. Well, tonight I cried. But, it was a good cry. It reminded me of all the reasons we need to forgive others. This movie is one movie I will recommend to anyone who asks. Don't worry about being preached at too much. It's just enough to get the point across and that is exactly what some need. This movie shows that no matter what happens to you in your life, God will always be there to help you through it.

Worth it.

[legaines · 9/10 · 10 November 2018]

The acting right off the bat was questionable, but then within the first five min I was sucked in, hooked, and crying. Didn't stop until this very moment. Wonderful.

Well written and well acted

[mhbjc · 10/10 · 19 June 2020]

I try to find movies that are positive and there are a lot of them...but so many are just plain cheesy. This one is not! The story starts slow, but picks up in time. I am glad to see many names I recognize and hope that by giving this feedback, they will do more projects like this. We need more talent making great movies.

For me this was a story about the power of forgiveness.

[JeffBatHome · 8/10 · 12 October 2017]

Let me start off by saying that I come from a Christian heritage but I am not a Christian. I am an agnostic. I can find no proof for the existence of God (let alone what's in the Bible, Koran, etc) nor can I find proof for the non-existence of God. Intellectual honesty requires, therefore, that I neither believe nor disbelieve. Given my stance on God and religion, I dismissed the Bible / Christian stuff in "A Question of Faith" out of hand. I just ignored it and instead approached this movie from a human behavior standpoint. I'm glad I did.

"A Question of Faith" is one of those stories about people who do not know each other but are brought together by an event, in this case a totally avoidable tragedy, and, as is necessary for this kind of movie, by coincidence. The tragedy begets pain and, of course, anger.

I like the acting in this movie. Some of the characters could have seemed "too good" to be real, but since I've met real people who are like the characters portrayed in the movie I was able to get past that.

The characters were all introduced early in the movie, and it became fairly predictable what what was going to happen next. So you might think, therefore, that "A Question of Faith" just left me flat and from my description that this movie is not worth watching, but you would be wrong.

By the end of "A Question of Faith" I was crying. This movie, to me, is about the power and beauty of forgiveness, and it doesn't matter whether forgiveness comes from some religion or from innate human goodness. Maybe forgiveness means nothing to you but it means a whole lot to me. I have been both forgiven and have forgiven in my lifetime and I know what it truly means. "A Question of Faith" portrayed forgiveness in its true glory in spite of the biblical connections.

I knocked off a couple of points for all the bible stuff. But the thing I really didn't like about "A Question of Faith" is that it left all the theaters around here before I could go see it again.

An intriguing family film, draws tears from people of any ages

[fosyt · 10/10 · 26 April 2018]

Being a "I only want movies made from books" kind of person, I wasn't really excited to watch this movie. Me and my grandmother decided on watching this movie, since the other movies on Netflix didn't seem as interesting. At the time, I didn't feel like watching any movies, but as soon as the movie began, literally 26 seconds in, I was already content with the film. Of course, me seeing a bible verse would make me content any day, haha. But no, seriously. The story was so wonderful, and I cried so many times.

I would recommend this movie to anyone, as it has such a power meaning behind it. For all the Atheists/Non-Religious people out there: even though this is a religious movie, focusing majorly on christianity and God, I would recommend this to you. It has a good message about forgiveness, donating, and safety.

________________________________________________________________________ Remember the "safety" thing I said? Yeah, that's about car safety. Specifically, texting and driving. This could be a good film to show your teenage kids who are getting ready to drive.

This got too long, but if you did get this far, thank you for reading! God Bless.

Wow

[Carlie64 · 8/10 · 15 December 2018]

Have FAITH! Christ is OUR redeemer . He has lovingly given us free will so WE can do as we please. This movie shows us that there is HOPE . The definition of hell is no hope. With Christ, there is ALWAYS hope. This movie made me think. Made me thank God for my life. My mom. My healthy 19 year old. Enjoy. Learn. Love.

3 families, divided by tragedy, unite in faith

[stephaniemwilkinson-534-965293 · 10/10 · 2 October 2017]

A beautiful film that highlights our need to overlook our differences and focus, instead, on our similarities and ways we can help heal physical and spiritual wounds. No spoilers.....so, I'll just say that some issues that we, in our current society, face daily, and some decisions that we may have to make, are brought to light and addressed in a powerful, yet touching, film.

Something good from Something Bad

[burnettnicole · 9/10 · 14 October 2017]

A lot of the movie comes from various angles and family perspectives. It has good acting and great actors. It is well put together and certainly worth watching even if you don't like faith based films or bible themed movies you will still enjoy it. Anyone with a conscious would enjoy this film, definitely worth watching.