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eventy-four percent of all
evangelicals feel the mass
media are hostile to their
moral and spiritual values,"
according to an April 2004
Religion and Ethics
Newsweeklyl U.S. News and World
Report poll.
The movie Saved!, opening
today in Detroit, would seem to
validate their charge on some
level, with its satiric take on the
zeal of the Christian youth move-
ment, and more broadly, religious
extremism.
The film centers around Mary
(Jena Malone), a popular girl at a
Christian high school, and her queen
bee best friend, Hilary Faye (Mandy
Moore). They're both devout believ-
ers, but Mary begins questioning her
faith when she becomes pregnant
after trying to save her gay
boyfriend's soul. She is soon ostra-
cized by Hilary Faye and embraced
by the other school misfits, wheel-
chair-bound Roland (Macaulay
Culkin) and Cassandra Edelstein
(Eva Amurri — the daughter of
actress Susan Sarandon), the token
Jew.
Predictably, the film was not an
easy sell for co-writers Michael
Urban and Brian Dannelly (who also
directed the film). There was con-
cern over the potential controversy
of a religiously flip teen comedy,
especially with all of the Passion fer-
vor.
"It was naivety, I guess, but we
thought, 'Oh, this is a big commer-
cial movie — it's a teen comedy, of
course everybody will want to make
it.' Little did we know," said Urban.
Indeed, most of the jokes are at
the expense of the ultra devout. A
sign in a classroom reads "Jesus is
watching," and the school principal
tries to make Jesus hip and accessible
to his young flock by injecting street
slang into his sermons: "Let's get our
Christ on!" "You down with
G-O-D?"

Jena Malone, Macauley Culkin and
Mandy Moore in "Saved"

Eventually the script landed in the
hands of producers Michael Stipe
(also of the band R.E.M.) and Sandy
Stern, who loved it, and got United
Artists on board.
They've screened the heck out of it
since then, "to religious groups, gay
groups, teen groups, Christian
groups, tastemakers, cinephiles, real-
ly any kind of audience you think
of," Dannelly said.
One aspect that might prove con-
troversial is the role of Cassandra,
the Jewish girl, who, it could be
argued, "saves" the Christian kids at
the end of the film.
Whether the whole thing comes
off as subversive or sweet will cer-
tainly be up for debate. But so far,
Dannelly said, "the only people that
really freak out over the movie are
evangelical fundamentalists. My
mom brought a nun to the screening
in Maryland and she loved the
movie." ❑

Saved! opens Friday, June 11,

in area theaters.

