'The Eyes of Tammy Faye' isn't as good as Jessica Chastain's performance
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The stars outshine the movie in "The Eyes of Tammy Faye," a dazzling showcase for Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield as Tammy Faye and Jim Bakker in a dutiful, somewhat disjointed chronicle of how the televangelists amassed great wealth before his disgraced fall. While it's not a landslide vote, thanks to Chastain's disappearing act, "The Eyes" have it.
Spanning several decades (and burying the leads under makeup before it's over), the film begins with Tammy and Jim meeting in 1960 and follows them into the '90s. The pair initially embark on a whirlwind romance, built around the desire to preach the gospel and make a killing doing it. "God does not want us to be poor," a young Jim says, raising the eyebrows of his Bible teacher.
Within a few years, they discover television, taking a job working for Pat Robertson's Christian broadcasting operation, with Jim spouting the word and Tammy beguiling kids with puppets and song.
It’s hard to remember a year in which the Academy Award winners were so up in the air. Except probably one, of course — Jessie Buckley, from “Hamnet.”
The show formerly known as the SAG Awards is set to take place on Sunday, and it will be the last major stop for many nominees before the Oscars on March 15.
Connor Storrie’s meteoric rise — which has seen him go from the world of food service to an internet-dominating television series in just a few months — has left endless possibilities open for the Texas-born actor, whose name is surely being uttered in many a Hollywood casting room these days.