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Wise Blood

An American Masterpiece!

Rating 6.4 / 10Release October 24, 1979Runtime 106 min

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.

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