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The story of the Pastor and the Pro is much better than the seeming intrigue of the set up. The performances of the main stars are pretty good. Campbell is believable in the role of a working girl trying to tempt a virginal pastor, and Cox plays a convincing single pastor torn between holiness and self righteousness. The extras are cartoonish and the production quality is poor, but the writing is pretty strong. The struggles of the main characters seem real and their responses seem true to the characters. The movie was very funny, but not the farce that the title would suggest. The use of dramatic irony is funny and effective. A couple of the jokes don't land, but I feel that is more an issue of the edit and sound quality than of the writing, acting or directing. All in all, one of the better low budget, faith focused films I have seen.

"Jacob" (Travis Lincoln Cox) is a really nice guy who serves in a church while anxiously waiting to be ordained. Unfortunately, the fact that he is young and single works against him with his superior "Pastor Campbell" (Phillip Keiman) who doesn't quite feel comfortable with him yet. On an entirely different note, however, is the fact that Pastor Campbell's conniving niece "Leah" (Monika Holm) definitely likes Jacob and often tries to use her relationship with her uncle to pressure Jacob into dating her. So when an important Christian leader by the name of "Dr. Callahan" (Andrew Tribolini) accepts an invitation to visit the small church, Jacob is essentially told that in order to be invited he must bring a date-presumably Leah. But rather than bringing her, Jacob decides to ask his neighbor "Rachel" (Kelly Cunningham) to come instead. The problem is that Rachel is a prostitute and she not only wants to be paid but also has one major condition that Jacob has to agree to as well. And this creates all kinds of problems for him. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was a cute film which started off rather well but tapered off midway through the picture. Yet even so, both Travis Lincoln Cox and Kelly Cunningham performed quite well and if not for the lackluster ending I would have rated this film slightly higher.

This movie is a little gem whose splendor is to be viewed with wonder. It tackles the political tug of war between sex and religion with humor allowing us to question those things that we are told not to talk about in public. Go ahead I dare ya, watch and wonder my friends, watch and wonder.

Had no idea that a feature could be made without actors.

Proof that mild titillation is no substitute for dialog, delivery and plot.

Good movie. I recommend it. Kelly Cunningham is great.

This isn't a cookie cutter studio film. It's a little off kilter. That's good. Both leads give fun performances. Good for pizza and a movie night with SO

References to Bible characters not too subtle. Kernel of a good idea, but somehow too slow and talky, even though a short film. The two women leads are good, not much else to compliment.

I was curious about this movie based on the title, with low expectations.

Very pleasant surprise. Female lead was great with a lot of witty clever lines, making for an interesting combination of humor and drama.

This film has some amazing things going for it. The performance by Kelly Cunningham is superb, and whilst the rest of the cast is decent as well she definitely carries the fim.

The camera work and film quality are also quite good.

The writing is amazing with clever and entertaining dialogue and interesting characters. I was hooked and laughing most of the way through the movie.

It seems to fall apart late in the third act however where a lot of intricate and clever webs are weaved but the writer didn't really know how to end it.

The final twist in the story seems unnecessary and only serves to leave us with a relatively disappointing conclusion that makes the ending feel extremely rushed and disjointed.

The best thing about this movie was the female lead. The male lead was not good, very wooden. Most other characters were cartoonish

Except how Cunningham rendered the character of Rachael, the rest of the cast could have used a few acting lessons and some better lines from the writers.

However, the actual message of this film was a fairly good demonstration of the grace of God as actally represented in Scripture. Most of the American and British media represent the Chrisitan faith as conservatism, mere moralism, conformity to societal standards or a form of cultural nationalism; either that or a foil for the triumph of iiberal humanism against an oppressive angry, judgemental and/or remote God or rebellion against the hypocracy of the sourrouding impersonal, industrial, oppressive capitalist society disguised as Christianity--anything but a message of the grace of a holy God for those he came to redeem.

This one actually demonstrated what real grace is about on a personal, human level. That's rare. It's not the best script by far, but the idea is close to a fairly accurate representation of what the Cross is about, al least on a pedestrian level.

Religious propaganda, Bad acting, (kelly, so so) can not believe that in 2018 people still make this garbage

The irony of a movie about honesty being actually a deceptive trap to trick people into the religion agenda. One star for the hot pro.

Worth to see the movie for the effortless acting of Kelly Cunningham...Except acting and the script other deparments did not do much. Otherwise this would have been a great movie.

Very interesting. Reminded me some early works of Louis Bunuel and Ingmar Bergman.

This kind of story happened on most normal people mostly, however, they set this plot in this movie, so i doubt what they want to imply? the stubborn church regulation and traditional value? the discourage and hypocritical church worker? coward and inferiority prostitute? Honestly, it gives me an important revelation about dealing this kind of issue. Actually, they love each other. Just give more time to each other, they may become a pair of faithful lover!

While there are so many repeated storylines and cliches in movies, this movie was a breath of fresh air! For the budget that they were working with, it's absolutely great. I didn't think anything came across as religious propaganda although obviously centered around the church. It's just a fun and compelling storyline that I very highly recommend! I hope Matthew Wilson has more opportunities in the future!

Kelly Cunningham...why is she not busier ? she was wonderful, as was the actress who played Leah (the Pastor's niece.) I read somewhere that this movie cost $11,000to make, so how 'bout y'all bashers on here go make a better one for $11,000...i'll wait.

The title threw me off but it certainly was not what I expected. The ending was quite nice.

Ok... I didn't like the ending... but the entire movie otherwise was pure joy. Wonderful effort by a very talented entrepreneur, director and actor. I read a Wall Street Journal article that said he only spent $11,000 to make this film. AMAZING! Well done. Fun to watch.