"I smell gasoline," the suspicious husband, Matthew, announces in the opening scene of "Easter," Will Scheffer's dark and poignant heartland drama at Naked Angels. Wilma, his wife, has just returned from town, in a wedding dress, no less, and Matthew is worried that she is up to her old tricks. She has already burned down a dozen churches in Oklahoma and Kansas, and all the warning signs point to another holy torching.
"I smell gasoline," the suspicious husband, Matthew, announces in the opening scene of "Easter," Will Scheffer's dark and poignant heartland drama at Naked Angels. Wilma, his wife, has just returned from town, in a wedding dress, no less, and Matthew is worried that she is up to her old tricks. She has already burned down a dozen churches in Oklahoma and Kansas, and all the warning signs point to another holy torching.
While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her two fathers are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost.
Grace is a woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.
Pastor Dave responds to the unimaginable tragedy of having his church, located on the grounds of the local university, burned down.
London, 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of Christmas Eve night he is visited by three ghosts to show him his past, present and future.
Michael is a widower who is struggling to adjust to his new role as the sole caretaker of his two children. Still reeling from the death of his wife, he has been plagued by terrifying apparitions. When he volunteers at a local literary festival, he finds himself drawn to Lena, an empathetic author of supernatural fiction. While Lena tries to help Michael with the mystery of his nightmarish visions, she must contend with problems of her own, as she’s being jealously pursued by self-obsessed novelist Nicholas, her one-time lover. As the festival progresses, the three adults’ lives converge and collide.
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
After their young son, Colton, undergoes emergency surgery, small-town parents Todd and Sonja Burpo are overjoyed at the child's miraculous recovery. However, the Burpos are unprepared for what happens next... Colton says that during his surgery he went to heaven and back, and tells his parents things that he couldn't possibly know. Can Todd find the courage and conviction to share his son's extraordinary, life-changing experience with the world?
Jesus, a carpenter living a simple life, discovers his destiny as the biblical Messiah.
Neil is torn between two loves: Marina, the European woman who comes to the United States to be with him, and Jane, the old flame from his hometown he reconnects with. Neil’s doubts about his life and loves are reflected in the crisis of faith experienced by Father Quintana, who only sees pain and the loss of hope in the world.
A grieving man receives a mysterious, personal invitation to meet with God at a place called 'The Shack'.