THE OVERNIGHTERS
6/10
Another documentary that would be best served waiting for a TV broadcast. This film is about a pastor in Texas, in a town whose mining interests are booming, and how he is providing food and shelter to those who are arriving in their town and down on their luck, hoping to find work and get back on their feet. It was well filmed, and the main character certainly was interesting enough to remain engaged. However, for such a divisive topic for the townspeople, it seemed that the filmmaker was making a pretty one sided representation of the subject matter. The abrupt direction change towards the end of the film appeared to be an attempt at salvaging a film that could have been interesting, but was apparently self-sabotaged by some of the pastor's actions external to the core subject at hand, and kind of seemed irrelevant. I guess I was hoping for a better overall story to be told.