God's Army (2000)
6/10
An Older Elder
10 March 2012
God's Army is what young Matthew Brown from Kansas has signed up for. He's doing his missionary thing for the Mormon Church and he's been assigned to the mean streets of Los Angeles. Moving in with his Mormon mates, Brown finds himself assigned to a really older elder. At 29 you don't go out on missions for the church, that's a younger person's thing, at 19 Brown is the right age for it. But Richard Dutcher who should be settled and married and making little LDS babies to grow the church as opposed to making converts which is the hard way has a special reason for doing the mission thing at an advanced age.

Dutcher and Brown really don't hit it off, he acts like a drill sergeant in God's Army. Still the two of them have their shared experiences which is all to the good and both learn from each other.

Dutcher is the producer, director, writer, and star of his own film and he brought in a nice one that not too many folks who are not members of the Mormon Church can appreciate. As in a couple of other LDS member produced items, I do appreciate the insights into what these missionary kids go through and how they interact with each other away from outsiders like myself.

This one is good for Mormon audiences and if you have an open mind an outsider can like it as well.
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