''Faith of Our Fathers'' is a 2015 American Christian

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directed by Carey Scott and written by

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, Carey Scott, Harold Uhl and

David A. R. White David Andrew Roy White (born May 12, 1970) is an American actor, film director, screenwriter, film producer and businessman. He is a co-founder of Pinnacle Peak Pictures, a distribution and production company specializing in Christian faith- a ...

. The film stars Downes, White,

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, Candace Cameron Bure, Rebecca St. James and Sean McGowan. Initially titled ''To the Wall'' when shown to preview audiences in January 2015, this was changed prior to its national release on July 1, 2015 by

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and

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Plot

Meek postal service worker John Paul George (

), is named after three members of

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. He has never met his father, Stephen ( Sean McGowan), because Stephen died during the

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in 1969. While rummaging through the garage of his recently deceased mother's house, John comes across a box of his father's war belongings and finds a letter mentioning "Eddie J. Adams" (

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), his best friend from Vietnam. Curious, John starts calling people in the country with that name. He eventually comes across someone who seems to recognize the name. John travels to

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, where he finds that the person with whom he conversed on the phone was actually Edward's son, Wayne Adams (

). Wayne is an ill-tempered hermit. Wayne reveals that he has many letters from his father, most of which detail John's father, who helped him rediscover his Christian faith. Later that night, Wayne impulsively cuts the roof off his 1965

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to "make it a convertible for a road trip". Confused and angered because his wedding to his fiancée Cynthia ( Candace Cameron Bure) is in a matter of weeks, John protests the trip. He prefers to just read the letters at Wayne's house. Wayne is insistent, however, that they go on the long and arduous road trip to visit the

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, to see their fathers' names on The Wall and get closure. During the trip the two men repeatedly clash over many things, but they learn more about their fathers and themselves. Wayne gets into a fight with rowdy gas station patrons. He also forces John to pay him for the letters if he wants to read them, on the trip .

Cast

as John Paul George *

David A.R. White David Andrew Roy White (born May 12, 1970) is an American actor, film director, screenwriter, film producer and businessman. He is a co-founder of Pinnacle Peak Pictures, a distribution and production company specializing in Christian faith- a ...

as Wayne Adams *

as Mansfield * Candace Cameron Bure as Cynthia * Rebecca St. James as Annie *Sean McGowan as Stephen George *

as Edward "Eddie" Adams *Ryan Doom as Pvt. Shears

Reception

Audiences and critics panned ''Faith of Our Fathers''. On

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, the film has a 9% approval rating based on 11 reviews, with an

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of 4/10. On

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, which assigns a normalized rating, the film has a score of 20 out of 100, based on 5 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".

References

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