PREVIEW: The Eyes of Tammy Faye (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty), Andrew Garfield (Tick, Tick… Boom!), Cherry Jones (Cradle Will Rock), Vincent D’Onofrio (The Unforgivable), Fredric Lehne (Air Strike), Louis Cancelmi (The Irishman), Sam Jaeger (Inherent Vice), Gabriel Olds (Now & Forever), Mark Wystrach (Just My Luck), Jay Huguley (Hijacked), Randy Havens (Instant Family), Jess Weixler (It Chapter Two), Chandler Head (The Glass Castle)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Michael Showalter (The Big Sick), director; Abe Sylvia (Dirty Girl), writer; Kelly Carmichael (Ava), Jessica Chastain (The 355), Gigi Pritzker (Drive) and Rachel Shane (Motherless Brooklyn), producers; Theodore Shapiro (Tropic Thunder), composer; Michael Gioulakis (Us), cinematographer; Mary Jo Markey (Super 8) and Andrew Weisblum (Black Swan), editors

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

During the 70s and 80s, Tammy Faye Bakker (Chastain) and her husband Jim Bakker (Garfield) rise from humble beginnings to create the world’s largest religious broadcasting network, but their success is eventually derailed by numerous scandals…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Jessica Chastain undergoes heavy make-up and prosthetics to deliver a compelling central performance as disgraced televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker, in a fascinating true story that explores her notable rise and fall.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 4TH FEBRUARY 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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