LDS movie maker probes "Murder Among the Mormons" + Anthony Hopkins stuns in "The Father"
A comedy filmmaker gets deadly serious. Jared Lawrence Hess first exploded onto the movie-making scene with Napoleon Dynamite, the gently quirky 2004 teen comedy classic he directed and co-wrote with his wife Jerusha. Other comedies followed, including the 20o6’s Nacho Libre (starring Jack Black) and a short-lived Napoleon Dynamite animated series that aired on the Fox Broadcasting Network in 2012. But anyone expecting laughs out of Hess’ latest project will be surprised. Murder Among the Mormons (dropping next Wednesday/March 3rd on Netflix) is anything but a comedy. The three-part ...
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