Wise Blood

About Wise Blood

A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.

John Huston's Wise Blood is a 1979 comedy film. It runs 106 minutes and was released in October 1979.

The film is filed under christianity, redemption, southern USA, and blindness. It is adapted from a novel.

Brad Dourif takes the lead as Hazel Motes, Dan Shor as Enoch Emory, Amy Wright as Sabbath Lily, and Harry Dean Stanton as Asa Hawks. The screenplay is by Benedict Fitzgerald and Michael Fitzgerald. It streams on Criterion Channel, HBO Max, and HBO Max Amazon Channel in the United States.

Ben-Hur, The Shawshank Redemption, and The Green Mile make useful companions to Wise Blood. TMDB voters put it at 6.4 out of 10 across 115 votes and it carries a PG rating.