Rick Santorum movie flops

Paul Carpenter
6:17 p.m. EST, November 28, 2013

... Santorum is the CEO of EchoLight Studio, a film production company, which he promised will be "the Pixar of faith" ... The first release from EchoLight under his leadership, just in time for the holiday season, is "The Christmas Candle."

It's about a preacher who takes over a parish in a small English town, where the congregation believes in a magic candle. Every 25 years an angel visits the town's candle-maker and touches one of the candles, which results in a miracle on Christmas Eve for the person who buys it ...

"Artless" and "muddled," said The New York Daily News. "A vaguely distasteful Yuletide concoction," said one critic. Another bashed "this Bible-banging hunk of whimsy." Roger Moore, whose reviews often appear in The Morning Call, called it "pablum, best served to babies and the undiscriminating." Even the rare positive reviews were lukewarm at best.

Because of all those heathen movie reviewers, Santorum may have to wait a while before he gets Pixar-like recognition ...

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