The Eyes of Tammy Faye: Movie Review
The Eyes of Tammy Faye: Movie Review Cast: Jessica Chastain, Andrew Garfield Director: Michael Showalter The Eyes of Tammy Faye is a film that hinges solely on the performances of its two leads, with each complementing the other in ways that help them excel on the screen. Which is fortunate, because as a drama and biography, The Eyes of Tammy Faye clearly really doesn't know what it wants to be. Charting the journey of Tammy Faye Bakker as she negotiated her way into the world of televangelism in the 1970s, Jessica Chastain is excellent as the infinitely perky, potentially naive and believing-the-best-of-people Tammy Faye. It's possibly helped by a script that really does champion her point of view, and does little else to delve deeper into the potential complexities of the crimes the Bakkers were committing, stealing from their evangelical foundation for their own use. The Eyes of Tammy Faye implies that Jim Bakker (a fierce Andrew Garfield, in one of his career best) ...