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starring: Steve Martin, Debra Winger, Lolita Davidovich, Liam Neeson, Lukas Haasdirected by: Richard Pearce
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302768039
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6302768039
Label: Paramount Home Video
Manufacturer: Paramount Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount Home Video
Release Date: April 02, 1996
Running Time: 108 minutes
Sales Rank: 7716
Studio: Paramount Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 18, 1992
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A Modern-day Parable.
Leap of Faith is Hollywood's take on the disturbing subject of 'stealing in the name of the Lord', the lowest form stealing. It's understandable why Christian believers would not want any part of seeing this movie.... but than again, they should be the first to see it as it's premise is nothing new and in no way maligns or mocks their faith, rather, the film is a commentary about fake evangelists and faith-healers out for a buck. The Gospels record such goings on in the first century when Jesus ... Read More
Rating:  - I wonder if Benny Hinn has seen this?
Christians stayed away from this movie when it was released. They should not have. For Steve Martin is not spoofing God or Christianity, but the absurd idea of putting Faith in a walking carnival of a Minister who claims to hear repeatedly from God. It is the blind leading the blind. The irony of it is that as much as the Church objects to Hollywood, it was Hollywood that made a movie pointing out what Christians refused to speak out on. Steve Martin watched hours and hours of tv evangelists before ... Read More
Rating: - Good fun
I had the unique opportunity to review scenes from this film a year before it was released. I was at a mall and got asked if I wanted to participate in an exercise involving film and desserts. I chose film. They lead me into a room and explained they were going to show me proposed preview from an upcoming film release, nothing more.
So the film began and Leap Of Faith was the film.
Afterward, they asked my opinion about the effectiveness of the preview and I told them it needed ... Read More
Rating: - Fantastic Steve Martin Vehicle
Steve Martin, without his funny-man routine, turns in a great performance as the leader of a ministry of con men who is out-conned by none other than.........Jesus.
This is a film for people who wonder about life under the "Big Top" of traveling ministries where miracles MAY take place--for a price. There's always a fix in to find the truly needy under the big top and its great theatre watching Martin on stage as the man "GOD" speaks to. Until one day he actually, by hook or by crook, pulls ... Read More
Rating: - A good picture of the spiritual chaos of modern society
Very good film about a fake travelling faith healer and his entourage of employees/followers.
The story is simple enough, almost cliché, but there are a few elements that raise the film above the garbage of Hollywood industry (post 1960's). The end has been commented enough, and I agree it's a nice ending. But what interests me most are the roles played by Debra Winger, the fake man's assistant, and the nice-guy sheriff. Watching this movie from a believer's perspective I must say that ... Read More
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