The Rapture (film)

Infobox Film
name = The Rapture


caption = Theatrical release poster
amg_id = 1:40330
imdb_id = 0102757
director = Michael Tolkin
writer = Michael Tolkin
producer = Karen Koch
Nancy Tenenbaum
Nick Wechsler Laurie Parker (executive producer)
starring = Mimi Rogers
David Duchovny
Will Patton
Darwyn Carson
music = Thomas Newman
cinematography = Bojan Bazelli
editing = Suzanne Fenn
distributor = New Line Cinema
preceded_by =
followed_by =
awards =
released = September 6, 1991
runtime = 100 min.
country = United States
language = English

"The Rapture" is a 1991 psychological/religious drama film starring Mimi Rogers, David Duchovny, Darwyn Carson, Patrick Bauchau, Marvin Elkins, Will Patton, and Stephanie Menuez; directed by Michael Tolkin; rated R; 100 minutes long; and produced by New Line Cinema.

Plot summary

The film tells the story of Sharon (Rogers), a young Los Angeles woman who engages in a swinging, libidinous lifestyle with her male partner. She comes into contact with a sect that advises her that a true Rapture is imminent. In time, she comes to accept this belief herself and becomes a born-again Christian. She begins a new, pious lifestyle, eventually marrying and having a daughter. When her husband Randy (Duchovny) is killed in a senseless murder, however, she begins to question the benevolence of God. She believes she must wait in the desert for the coming of the Rapture but eventually loses patience. At her daughter's urging, she decides to hasten her and her daughter's ascendance to heaven. She kills her daughter with a gunshot, but is unable to take her own life afterwards, afraid she'll be condemned as a suicide. She is arrested and imprisoned.

Until this point, the film appears to be a story about a born-again cultist whose beliefs eventually lead to murder, but, in a twist ending, the Rapture does indeed arrive, and the saved are taken to Heaven. Still, Sharon refuses to renounce her anger at God for his cruelty. Her young daughter begs her to accept God back into her heart so she can join her husband and daughter in Heaven, but Sharon declines, preferring to remain in a purgatory-like landscape for eternity.

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