Jessica Chastain's recent Oscar win for "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" drew my attention to the Bakkers. I had heard about them for years and only loosely understood the scandal surrounding them.
Anyway, I found this 1990 TV movie about the Bakkers. "Fall from Grace" casts Kevin Spacey as Jim and Bernadette Peters as Tammy Faye. Although I liked learning more about what happened, I feel like the movie limited its focus too much. I would've liked to see a reenactment of Tammy Faye's interview with an AIDS-afflicted man where she asked how people calling themselves Christians can turn their backs on those in need.
Anyway, after the depicted events, Jim spent a few years in jail, but now hawks all sorts of shady products. When he did a retrospective of his career, he completely omitted Tammy Faye! Tammy Faye, meanwhile, became a gay icon and starred in a documentary called "The Eyes of Tammy Faye", not to be confused with the 2021 movie (she died in 2007). As for Kevin Spacey, he suffered his own fall from grace in 2017. Strange how these things work out.
Crawling around like Spider-Man. And then in the more recent movie, one of Spidey's actors played Jim!
Anyway, I found this 1990 TV movie about the Bakkers. "Fall from Grace" casts Kevin Spacey as Jim and Bernadette Peters as Tammy Faye. Although I liked learning more about what happened, I feel like the movie limited its focus too much. I would've liked to see a reenactment of Tammy Faye's interview with an AIDS-afflicted man where she asked how people calling themselves Christians can turn their backs on those in need.
Anyway, after the depicted events, Jim spent a few years in jail, but now hawks all sorts of shady products. When he did a retrospective of his career, he completely omitted Tammy Faye! Tammy Faye, meanwhile, became a gay icon and starred in a documentary called "The Eyes of Tammy Faye", not to be confused with the 2021 movie (she died in 2007). As for Kevin Spacey, he suffered his own fall from grace in 2017. Strange how these things work out.
Crawling around like Spider-Man. And then in the more recent movie, one of Spidey's actors played Jim!