Movie Description:
WHAT WOULD JESUS BUY? follows Reverend Billy and the Church ofStop Shopping Gospel Choir asthey go on a cross-country mission to save Christmasfrom the Shopocalypse: the end of mankind consumerism, over-consumption and the fires of eternal debt! From producer Morgan Spurlock comes aserious docu-comedy about the commercialization of the holidays. Bill Talen (akaReverend Billy) was a lost idealist who hitchhiked toNew York City only to find thatTimes Square was becoming a mall. Spurred on by the loss of his neighborhood and inspired by sidewalk preachers aroundhim, Bill bought a collar to match his white caterer`s jacket,bleached his hair and becameReverend Billy of the Church of Stop Shopping. Since 1999,Reverend Billy has gone from being a lone preacher with a portable pulpit preaching on subways, to the leader, with the film`s co-star Savitri D., ofa worldwide movement to slow consumption. Through retail interventions, corporate exorcisms, and some good old-fashioned preaching,Reverend Billy reminds us that we have lost the true meaning of Christmas. Willwe walk in the Valley of the Shadow of Debt, or will we finda new way to give a gift this Christmas? WHAT WOULD JESUS BUY? may just be the Divine Intervention we`ve all been searching for.
