Eyes Of Tammy Faye

Year: 2000

Grade: C+

Country: USA

Director: Bailey

Review

documentary on the rise and fall of jim and tammy faye bakker. at first i thought i had made a mistake in renting this one because it has a sort of tv documentary feel to the production, but it turned out to redeem itself with an interesting story told in a less sensationalistic way than it could have been told. tammy faye bakker is a bit crazy and not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but, by the end of the film, i ended up thinking more of her than i ever thought i would. it’s not that she’s a great person who just got a bad rap, it’s more that she comes off as a fairly innocent, well-meaning dimwit who happens to align herself with idiotic men (her new husband was also brought up on fraud charges). it’s an interesting film if not for the simple reason that it presents a different point of view than the one you’ve probably heard in the media. oh, and it also makes jerry falwell look fucking evil and that’s always entertaining..