The Gospel

Writer-director Rob Hardy and producer Will Packer trade in the profane for the sacred in this gospel-powered variation on THE JAZZ SINGER, which is in turn nothing more or less than a secular retelling of the Biblical parable of the prodigal son. Minister's son David Taylor (Michael J. Pagan) is a religious teenager blessed with a glorious voice; he intends to follow in the footsteps of his father, charismatic Bishop Taylor (Clifton Powell). David and his best friend, Charles Frank, are as close as brothers; Charles shares David's calling and regards Bishop Taylor as a surrogate father. But David suffers a shattering crisis of faith when his mother dies suddenly whi...