Movie Trailer of the Week - Catechism Cataclysm

It seems to me that Christians are finally being better represented in film with multi-faceted three dimensional characters. Scroll down the blog and you'll see that over the past few months the trailers of the week have included Blue Like Jazz, Higher Ground, and Machine Gun Preacher. Soul Surfer was an enormous success. Several other upcoming movies about Christians look promising, such as The 5th Quarter starring Aidan Quinn and Andie McDowell.

This week's trailer is a comedy called Catechism Cataclysm starring Eastbound & Down's  Steve Little as a priest who embarks on a canoe trip right after dropping his Bible in a toilet. I'm definitely not saying this is a "Christian film" (you can tell that from the line below the title on the poster), but it is nice to see a clergy represented as a real and flawed human -- something that was commonplace in the days of black and white film (A Man Called Peter, The Bishop's Wife, Boys Town, Bells of St. Mary) -- and we can hope that there is some truth in the movie.

I think this looks like a gem. The trailer is charming, which is good because the poster makes it look like it would probably be a horror movie about exorcism.

Here's the official synopsis: Father Billy (Steve Little), an eccentric young priest, is forced to take a sabbatical by his superiors when he is discovered telling inappropriate parables to his flock. Billy tracks down his high-school idol Robbie (Robert Longstreet), who begrudgingly agrees to a canoe trip. On the water, the two men reminisce about Billy's days as the keyboardist in a Christian band and Robbie's as a guitarist for a metal band. When night approaches, they realize they have lost their way--and that's when things get weird.

Check out the trailer:

Catechism Cataclysm hits theaters on October 21 and On Demand October 26.