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- Both find themselves in the middle of eternal battles between true believers who take every aspect as the unvarnished truth and naysayers who decry it all as ridiculous fiction; both have inspired any number of battles over the years between those who insist that the faith or wrestler of their choosing is the one true one and all others are impostors; both have seen the faith of their believers exploited by Donald Trump for his own personal benefit.
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Jan 12, 2016 · With the release of "The Masked Saint," a film that dares to combine religion and rassling into one oddball package, they can now claim to have something else in common in that they are both institutions that will presumably recover from all of the absurdities on display-quite possibly before I do, in fact.
THE MASKED SAINT (aka Chris Samuels, played by Brett Granstaff) is a popular wrestler. He is also a devoted family man and an ordained minister. After a run-in with Nick, a corrupt promoter, "The Saint" quits wrestling and is hired as the pastor of a decaying church in Michigan.
- Warren B. Sonoda
- Renee Schonfeld
- Freestyle Digital Media
Jan 12, 2016 · Adapted from Chris Whaley’s novel partly inspired by his own experiences at the pulpit and in the ring, this gracelessly written and played drama from director Warren P. Sonoda centers around a...
Jan 6, 2016 · James Preston Rogers "The Reaper" plays Granstaff's opponent in the film. Standing at 6 feet 5 inches tall, the hulking, muscular actor worked with Granstaff to help improve his wrestling by using the professional skills he attained at the WWE's training camp. 1.
In this film version, successful wrestler Chris Samuels, who fights under the title The Saint, leaves his wrestling career behind to become a pastor at a small town church with lots of problems.
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- Action, Crime, Drama
- PG-13
Chris Samuels is a former professional wrestler who retires from the ring to settle down as a small town pastor. When the pastor witnesses rampant problems in the community, he decides to moonlight as a masked vigilante fighting the injustice.
