“One of John Huston's most original, most stunning movies.” New York Times

Fresh from the Army, Hazel Motes (Brad Dourif) is about to, as he says in his barking voice, “do some things I ain't never dun before.” Raised in rural Georgia by his brimstone-belching grandfather (John Huston), Hazel wants to free himself from the scorching heat of his past. His was a country childhood drenched in sin, self-loathing, and the blood of Christ. In the town of Taulkinham (really the battered back neighborhoods of Macon, Georgia), he sets out into the streets to preach a gospel of his own invention, the “Church of Truth Without Christ,” “a church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk.” This faithful adaptation of Flannery O'Connor's 1952 novel occupies that faithless milieu where evangelical hucksters peddle “prophets” to those just achin' for salvation. Played with biblical fury by Dourif, wild-eyed Motes is not alone on those rapturous streets: Asa Hawks (Harry Dean Stanton), a falsely blind preacher trolls for true believers while his sin-saturated daughter Sabbath Lily (Amy Wright) wants to “save” Hazel for herself, and smooth-tongued Hoover Shoates (Ned Beatty) sees a buck in every salvaged soul. John Huston's hellaciously humored Wise Blood spreads its own gospel: only a blind man can finally see the face of God