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    Rapture, The (1991)

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    The Book of Revelation is rich fare for those with a taste for weird visions of catastrophe and many films have referenced it. But none have taken it quite so literally as Michael Tolkin’s The Rapture, which concludes with scenes which come straight from the pages of the Bible.

    The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse appear, the shackles of prisoners fall, the trumpets sound and darkness falls upon the world . . .

    The film is blisteringly powerful and disturbing, centred almost entirely upon a painfully credible performance from Mimi Rogers as Sharon, a former swinger who becomes a born-again Christian upon being told that the final judgement is nigh.

    But things go wrong and we’re left with a film that raises more questions than it answers.

    The final scene, showing spiritual and physical desolation, is cruelly logical in its implications about exactly who “the chosen ones” might be.

    Sharon
    Mimi Rogers
    Randy
    David Duchovny
    Vic
    Patrick Bauchau
    Mary
    Kimberly Cullum
    Paula
    Terri Hanauer
    Henry
    Dick Anthony Williams
    Angie
    Carole Davis
    Foster
    Will Patton
    Maggie
    Darwyn Carson
    Diana
    Stephanie Menuez
    Wayne
    Sam Vlahos
    Conrad
    Rustam Branaman
    Faithful
    Victoria Williams
    Louis
    Douglas Roberts

    Director
    Michael Tolkin

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