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Ragamuffin

  • 20142014
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 2h 17m
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6.7/10
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Michael Koch in Ragamuffin (2014)
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A musical prodigy rises to Christian music fame and fortune only to walk away and live on a Navajo reservation.A musical prodigy rises to Christian music fame and fortune only to walk away and live on a Navajo reservation.A musical prodigy rises to Christian music fame and fortune only to walk away and live on a Navajo reservation.
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1.2K
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    • David Leo
  • Writers
    • Ashleigh Philips(screenplay)
    • David Leo(screenplay)
    • David Holechek(additional story)
  • Stars
    • Michael Koch
    • David Leo
    • Mel Fair
    • David Leo
  • Writers
    • Ashleigh Philips(screenplay)
    • David Leo(screenplay)
    • David Holechek(additional story)
  • Stars
    • Michael Koch
    • David Leo
    • Mel Fair
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    • 49User reviews
    • 15Critic reviews
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    Michael Koch
    • Rich Wayne Mullins
    David Leo
    David Leo
    • Sam Howard
    • (as David Leo Schultz)
    Mel Fair
    Mel Fair
    • John Mullins
    Carson Aune
    Carson Aune
    • Justin
    Elizabeth Roberts
    Elizabeth Roberts
    • Jessica
    • (as Elizabeth Ann Roberts)
    Christie Brooke
    Christie Brooke
    • Sprinkle
    Cameron Goodman
    Cameron Goodman
    • Beth
    Mitch McVicker
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    James Kyson
    James Kyson
    • Matt Gast
    Wolfgang Bodison
    Wolfgang Bodison
    • Bryan Bontrager
    Charles Lawlor
    Charles Lawlor
    • Brennan Manning
    Amy Schultz
    • Amy Grant
    Bill Clem
    • Gary
    Michelle Keller
    Michelle Keller
    • Neva Mullins
    Dave Mullins
    • Radio DJ Randy
    Clark Mahaffey
    • Little Rich Mullins
    Jon Mullins
    • Teenage Rich Mullins
    Kacie Mullins
    • Debbie Mullins
      • David Leo
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      • Ashleigh Philips(screenplay)
      • David Leo(screenplay) (story)
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    • Trivia
      Morris is played by the real life Sam, Rich's friend from college. And the actor playing the radio interviewer is Rich's real life younger brother David,
    • Quotes

      Bryan Bontrager: Yeah, see those- all this talking you've been doing at your concerts? That's got to stop, OK? People are paying to hear you sing, not to hear you talk. Do you understand that? No, no, no. You're there to make fans, not enemies.

      Rich Wayne Mullins: What can I say? That's what happens when you're honest with religious people.

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    Rich Mullins was a broken man. A man who felt rejected by his father, and by the God that the evangelical church had presented to him. He was also extremely gifted with the ability to express his struggle through words and music. He wrote just enough praise-happy songs to get Nashville to notice and lure him to record and sell his music. But, the real Rich remained tortured by his depression, addictions, and pain. He could sing about the love of God, but struggled to accept it himself.

    "Ragamuffin" is a term used by author Brennan Manning, who is also depicted in the film. The word describes one whose "deepest awareness ... is that he is deeply loved by Jesus Christ and has done nothing to earn it or deserve it." It becomes an aspiration of Mullins to grasp that reality in the midst of a Christian subculture that prides itself on it's own triumphalism. As an artist, and a person, Rich Mullins was too honest - and too broken - to claim such a victory.

    That is why the message of this movie contrasts so sharply with the latest "Christian" theatrical release, "God's Not Dead." There, Christianity is painted with bold strokes of black and white with little room for the gray smudges that watercolor the Ragamuffin's life. The two films could not be more different as well in their presentation of the Christian consumerism that has created Contemporary Christian Music. "God's Not Dead" blatantly uses the Newsboys as angelic messengers of the film's tag-line. They are not even represented as "artists" but function instead as "product placement." (Willie Robertson, of Duck Dynasty, cameos offering his "celebrity endorsement" for Jesus.) This was the "Christian World" that Rich Mullins hated, and worked all his career to avoid being conformed into. It was not his home.

    Many evangelical Christians will be surprised, perhaps shocked or offended, to witness just what a mess Mullins was. Like the scriptures, the movie doesn't blink in showing us his flaws. You'll see him smoking, drinking, and swearing -- all while also clearly witnessing to the truth of the gospel with both his words and deeds. For many of us, it will be too much to stomach. Mullins would not fit in among many of our church friends. But, if Jesus still welcomes the poor in spirit, the mourning, and those hungering for righteousness into his Kingdom -- then Rich should be right at home there.
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      • January 9, 2014 (United States)
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