Spoiler alert.
The movie centers around Milton an 18-19 year old goody two shoes who just wants to go to college, play baseball and pray to the Lord. He's not involved with meth, opoids, alcohol, sex, tattoos, extreme pranks or any teen rebellious behavior. You would think his parents would be happy about this, but you would be wrong. They actually want him to drop out of school, quit his likely professional baseball career and work on their farm. They probably want him to drink and use crystal meth too but that wasn't said. This working on the farm idea is especially looney because they are in the midst of a multi year drought and nothing is growing. The corn is all dried up. What would he be doing on the farm with nothing to plant and nothing to harvest?
And the mother, despite how desperate they are for money, it never occurs to her to get a job or do something useful herself. She spends all of her time alone in the house, doing what? god only knows but at least she always has her hair done, make up on, and clean new freshly pressed clothes.
The dad dies, and so Milton. the rebel, now has to drop out of college and help on the farm because obviously his shiftless mother isn't about to sell it and actually get a job herself. On the way home from his dad's funeral Milton gets in a car accident and apparently kills a pedestrian. This is the day after Milton has planted a crop of corn amidst the drought, just on faith. But he has prayed so we hope for good things. He is in jail for two days obviously praying and being good, and when he gets out he comes back to the farm with his mother and finds the corn fields have grown thousands of acres of 10 foot high corn. You may say this film is predictable but all that corn after 2 days in jail this is was one of the biggest shocks any film could spring. The message is obvious. If you be good and pray god will provide you with immediate rewards, tall corn and get you out of jail. It is never covered why God caused the drought and other injustices in the first place. Coming home from 2 days in jail, even though the corn is still in the field and unharvested, all of a sudden Milton and his mother suddenly have a lot of money... where it came from no one knows but I suspect his mother of some type of shifty business considering her eagerness to exploit her son and her aversion to doing any type of work.
Milton uses their new found money to take his mother on the balloon ride she always wanted rather than paying back all the people they owe money to and we all learn a lesson from this: the circumstances in your life will not make you happy. Your happiness will make the circumstances irrelevant. [Except the failing farm, being accused of manslaughter, and anger at his dad were all things to be upset over. (And your prayers will effect immediate results of wealth, getting out of jail and most anything else your heart desires). The End.
I just wish we could all go live in this bizarro american world of Watkins, Georgia where there is no litter, no unpainted buildings, everyone wears clean pressed clothes and everyone is willing to help each other with loans, car repairs, prayers and encouragement when someone's down. This is the kind of movie that causes atheists to think those who have faith are insane, with its idea that God is a magician in the sky who needs supplication and if he gets it will give you money, good circumstances, get you out of jail, and cure your previously permanently deformed wrist.
And the mother, despite how desperate they are for money, it never occurs to her to get a job or do something useful herself. She spends all of her time alone in the house, doing what? god only knows but at least she always has her hair done, make up on, and clean new freshly pressed clothes.
The dad dies, and so Milton. the rebel, now has to drop out of college and help on the farm because obviously his shiftless mother isn't about to sell it and actually get a job herself. On the way home from his dad's funeral Milton gets in a car accident and apparently kills a pedestrian. This is the day after Milton has planted a crop of corn amidst the drought, just on faith. But he has prayed so we hope for good things. He is in jail for two days obviously praying and being good, and when he gets out he comes back to the farm with his mother and finds the corn fields have grown thousands of acres of 10 foot high corn. You may say this film is predictable but all that corn after 2 days in jail this is was one of the biggest shocks any film could spring. The message is obvious. If you be good and pray god will provide you with immediate rewards, tall corn and get you out of jail. It is never covered why God caused the drought and other injustices in the first place. Coming home from 2 days in jail, even though the corn is still in the field and unharvested, all of a sudden Milton and his mother suddenly have a lot of money... where it came from no one knows but I suspect his mother of some type of shifty business considering her eagerness to exploit her son and her aversion to doing any type of work.
Milton uses their new found money to take his mother on the balloon ride she always wanted rather than paying back all the people they owe money to and we all learn a lesson from this: the circumstances in your life will not make you happy. Your happiness will make the circumstances irrelevant. [Except the failing farm, being accused of manslaughter, and anger at his dad were all things to be upset over. (And your prayers will effect immediate results of wealth, getting out of jail and most anything else your heart desires). The End.
I just wish we could all go live in this bizarro american world of Watkins, Georgia where there is no litter, no unpainted buildings, everyone wears clean pressed clothes and everyone is willing to help each other with loans, car repairs, prayers and encouragement when someone's down. This is the kind of movie that causes atheists to think those who have faith are insane, with its idea that God is a magician in the sky who needs supplication and if he gets it will give you money, good circumstances, get you out of jail, and cure your previously permanently deformed wrist.