A troubled veteran finds a new purpose within a charismatic leader's mysterious post-war movement.
Bleak and intimate. A full-attention watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it is devastating.
Streaming on Kanopy (free), Hoopla (free), The Roku Channel (free), Fandango at Home (free), Plex (free) and Tubi (free).
No surprises for an R: moderate sex and nudity, and some violence.
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Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto the ship of Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic leader of a new "religion" he forms after World War II.
It leaves the ending open to interpretation.
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