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Special Features
Commentary with Director David Evans, Executive Producer Lynn Holmes and Actor Michael Joiner
Courageous - Opening Scene
Deleted Scenes
Give a Little Grace: Outtakes
Starting a Grace Awakening: Behind the Scenes
Wayne (Stephen Dervan) Returns
"Healing Begins" By Tenth Avenue North Music Video
Courageous - Opening Scene
Deleted Scenes
Give a Little Grace: Outtakes
Starting a Grace Awakening: Behind the Scenes
Wayne (Stephen Dervan) Returns
"Healing Begins" By Tenth Avenue North Music Video
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
A Christian film about grace and forgiveness, The Grace Card tackles prejudice, loss, and grief. The death of a child 17 years ago filled Mac's heart with anger and bigotry and crippled his relationship with his wife and youngest son. In his job as a policeman, he's paired up with Sam, a black officer who's also a part-time preacher and whom Mac dislikes intensely. Sam has also just received the promotion Mac thinks he deserved himself. The difficult partnership affects each man and his family in very different and significant ways. Sam struggles with the conflict between his desire as a minister to love and accept everyone, and his intense feelings of anger and even hate toward his fellow officer. That struggle almost turns him away from his calling as a preacher. A crisis on the job threatens to decimate what's left of Mac's family and brings the conflict between Mac and Sam to a climax. Just when the situation looks like it might destroy both men, a few well-chosen words and a seeming coincidence reveal that God has made Sam's and Mac's paths cross for a reason. What's more, their interaction with one another causes both men to experience a personal and spiritual growth that neither could have anticipated. The expressions of bigotry in the film are hard to stomach, the sermonizing may be off-putting to some, and the events are sometimes quite predictable, but the portrayal of a city torn in half by racial prejudice is compelling and the message that forgiveness, rather than justice, offers the best solution is certainly worth considering. --Tami Horiuchi
Product Description
After police officer Mac McDonald loses his son in an accident, years of bitterness and pain erodes his love for his family and leaves him angry with God … and everyone else. Can Mac and his new patrol partner, Sgt. Sam Wright, somehow join forces to help one another when it’s impossible to look past their differences—especially the most obvious one? Every day, we have the opportunity to rebuild relationships and heal wounds by extending and receiving God’s grace. Offer The Grace Card … and never underestimate the power of God’s love. The Grace Card stars Michael Joiner, Michael Higgenbottom and Academy Award Winner, Louis Gossett Jr.
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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A wonderful movie about forgiveness and Grace that the whole family needs to watch
August 17, 2011
Format:DVD
Written by a 14 year old Girl:
My family and I really really enjoyed watching the movie "The Grace Card". It was an incredible movie with great themes and very moving and inspiring messages. My brothers playfully teased my mom and I about our tears after the movie because they had seen us crying during one of several emotional scenes.
The Grace Card: "I promise to pray for you every day, ask your forgiveness, grant you the same, and always be your friend".
Mac is a man who has been drowning in guilt and anger for seventeen years. When his five year old son, Tyler, was killed by a black drug dealer's car, Mac's family fell apart and Mac became a racist police man so that his tragedy would not happen to any one else and he could feel less guilty for destroying his family. His other son, Blake, loves his mom but can't stand the level of perfection his dad expects of him because the standard his father holds him up to is his dead five year old brother. Mac's wife can't get a job because she fell at work and now has a disability. 17 years have gone by since the death of their 5 year old son and their family is falling apart.
Sam is Mac's new police partner and a pastor who is working hard to get enough money so that he can become a full time preacher. Since Sam is black and Mac is a racist, their relationship doesn't start as a friendly one. Sam doesn't understand why God has put Mac into his life, but his wife thinks that God has put Sam into Mac's life. It turns out their both right as tragedy strikes Mac's family once again and finally brings Mac to his knees before God. It is through Sam's friendship and sacrifice that Mac sees God's Grace and is able to share it with another who has hurt him deeply. This story is about Grace, not judgement. It is about forgiveness, not prejudice. It is about God
This is a great movie and I learned a lot from it. It had many great messages about friendship, family, love, racism, murder, stealing and grace. It was very inspiring and perfectly appropriate for all ages. Our family is 5 years to 45 years and I highly recommend it.
Would I/Did I buy it? Yes
Would I watch it again? Yes
Would I recommend it to friends? Yes
My family and I really really enjoyed watching the movie "The Grace Card". It was an incredible movie with great themes and very moving and inspiring messages. My brothers playfully teased my mom and I about our tears after the movie because they had seen us crying during one of several emotional scenes.
The Grace Card: "I promise to pray for you every day, ask your forgiveness, grant you the same, and always be your friend".
Mac is a man who has been drowning in guilt and anger for seventeen years. When his five year old son, Tyler, was killed by a black drug dealer's car, Mac's family fell apart and Mac became a racist police man so that his tragedy would not happen to any one else and he could feel less guilty for destroying his family. His other son, Blake, loves his mom but can't stand the level of perfection his dad expects of him because the standard his father holds him up to is his dead five year old brother. Mac's wife can't get a job because she fell at work and now has a disability. 17 years have gone by since the death of their 5 year old son and their family is falling apart.
Sam is Mac's new police partner and a pastor who is working hard to get enough money so that he can become a full time preacher. Since Sam is black and Mac is a racist, their relationship doesn't start as a friendly one. Sam doesn't understand why God has put Mac into his life, but his wife thinks that God has put Sam into Mac's life. It turns out their both right as tragedy strikes Mac's family once again and finally brings Mac to his knees before God. It is through Sam's friendship and sacrifice that Mac sees God's Grace and is able to share it with another who has hurt him deeply. This story is about Grace, not judgement. It is about forgiveness, not prejudice. It is about God
This is a great movie and I learned a lot from it. It had many great messages about friendship, family, love, racism, murder, stealing and grace. It was very inspiring and perfectly appropriate for all ages. Our family is 5 years to 45 years and I highly recommend it.
Would I/Did I buy it? Yes
Would I watch it again? Yes
Would I recommend it to friends? Yes
58 of 69 people found the following review helpful
By Hotaru-San
Format:DVD
Before watching The Grace Card, I heard several very good reviews about it. Everyone who watched it seemed to think it was a very profound and well done movie of faith. Needless to say, I was excited to watch the movie and had high(er) expectations.
The Pros:
-The cinematography as a whole is not bad. For the most part, the shots were good.
-The actor who played Mac (the white male cop, main protagonist) was the best actor in the movie. However, even he had some moments that were "cringe worthy".
-The anger and frustration over finances in the home were spot on.
The Cons:
-The acting. ...Enough said.
-The dialogue was clunky in several places.
-Sometimes, the choices of scenes were more of a distraction than helping the story. In several cases the choice to put in a scene jolted you out of the flow of the story.
-Overall, there was a feeling to the film that didn't sit right with me and those watching it with me. It's hard to describe. It's like you wished you had never watched the movie and never, ever want to watch it again. But it's more than that. It leaves a bad feeling with you for awhile. Thankfully, God isn't a God who wants you to be in that state and lifts you out of it!
-There were faulty theories and strange comments that were rather disturbing. One scene/line in particular was at the end of the movie when a member of Sam's (the black male cop, main protagonist, pastor) church said to the rest of the congregation -about Sam-, "Welcome him back, he's our healer, Pastor Sam!" Whether you are Christian or not, that statement is very creepy. If you are Christian you'll know that the phrase contradicts everything in the Bible.
-The movie, which is supposed to be a movie of God's grace and faith in Jesus, fell short in that area. Although it had a moment of repentance and two or three characters were "Christians", it really lacked God and having a relationship with Him. It was disappointing to see that the pastor/cop, Sam, became a pastor of a church because he thought it was the thing he was supposed to do and thought it was success to make "his" church bigger. He suffers from dissatisfaction in that he can't make things happen in the church. First of all, Sam shouldn't have become a pastor unless God specifically told him to- not because it seemed like the best thing for a good Christian guy, or the right thing to do. Second, he- as many real life pastors today- missed the fact that it's not about a bigger church attendance and it's not a pastor's job to make a mega-church. The job of the pastor is to shepard the people and to show God's heart. You do what God tells you to do and He'll bring the increase.
Lastly, Sam never recognized the fact that the source of his dissatisfaction was that he needed a RELATIONSHIP with God and not a distant mutual acquaintance. He never realized that maybe he WASN'T supposed to be a pastor. Sam should have taken a hiatus from ministry until he knew that God wanted him to go back or to quit being a minister.
Perhaps the real reason why this movie didn't make the cut is a combination of the bad feeling of the film, the lack of Jesus' saving grace, the odd comments and central theme of human grace and human healing.
The Pros:
-The cinematography as a whole is not bad. For the most part, the shots were good.
-The actor who played Mac (the white male cop, main protagonist) was the best actor in the movie. However, even he had some moments that were "cringe worthy".
-The anger and frustration over finances in the home were spot on.
The Cons:
-The acting. ...Enough said.
-The dialogue was clunky in several places.
-Sometimes, the choices of scenes were more of a distraction than helping the story. In several cases the choice to put in a scene jolted you out of the flow of the story.
-Overall, there was a feeling to the film that didn't sit right with me and those watching it with me. It's hard to describe. It's like you wished you had never watched the movie and never, ever want to watch it again. But it's more than that. It leaves a bad feeling with you for awhile. Thankfully, God isn't a God who wants you to be in that state and lifts you out of it!
-There were faulty theories and strange comments that were rather disturbing. One scene/line in particular was at the end of the movie when a member of Sam's (the black male cop, main protagonist, pastor) church said to the rest of the congregation -about Sam-, "Welcome him back, he's our healer, Pastor Sam!" Whether you are Christian or not, that statement is very creepy. If you are Christian you'll know that the phrase contradicts everything in the Bible.
-The movie, which is supposed to be a movie of God's grace and faith in Jesus, fell short in that area. Although it had a moment of repentance and two or three characters were "Christians", it really lacked God and having a relationship with Him. It was disappointing to see that the pastor/cop, Sam, became a pastor of a church because he thought it was the thing he was supposed to do and thought it was success to make "his" church bigger. He suffers from dissatisfaction in that he can't make things happen in the church. First of all, Sam shouldn't have become a pastor unless God specifically told him to- not because it seemed like the best thing for a good Christian guy, or the right thing to do. Second, he- as many real life pastors today- missed the fact that it's not about a bigger church attendance and it's not a pastor's job to make a mega-church. The job of the pastor is to shepard the people and to show God's heart. You do what God tells you to do and He'll bring the increase.
Lastly, Sam never recognized the fact that the source of his dissatisfaction was that he needed a RELATIONSHIP with God and not a distant mutual acquaintance. He never realized that maybe he WASN'T supposed to be a pastor. Sam should have taken a hiatus from ministry until he knew that God wanted him to go back or to quit being a minister.
Perhaps the real reason why this movie didn't make the cut is a combination of the bad feeling of the film, the lack of Jesus' saving grace, the odd comments and central theme of human grace and human healing.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Just this minute finished watching this movie, which I have to admit, when I found out what it was about I hesitated. Why is it that we hesitate on good and accept bad so easily? This movie is about another side; one that promotes love instead of hate; good instead of bad; right instead of wrong. It is a movie that reminds us of another time when "love your neighbor" stood for more than a sign on the wall...it was a way of life. In a world where too little is ever forgiven this movie shows another way. Did I think it was good? I think I am going to carry a Grace Card myself from now on. The world can use a little more love and grace in the world. I suggest you do the same. Enjoy.
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Good clean movie
Very good. I like to view a dvd that doesn't defile our minds when we view it. This one was clean and had a good message.
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Great film with a good message
This is a film that makes you stop and think about life. Good message in it. I would definitely recommend it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
great movie
Another very good movie, have watched it several times, downloaded music that they used in the movie and even bought some of the grace cards to hand out to people.
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A GREAT MOVIE ABOUT THE POWER OF FORGIVENESS! IT SHOW HOW HATE DESTROYS THE HATER . FOR ME A VERY EMOTIONAL MOVIE. THE AFRICAN PROVERBS WERE SO ENLIGHTEN.
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If only its tale of past reconciliation were credible!
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Published 12 days ago by John Cavanaugh
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Film
This is a very true to life movie. The message of forgiveness and overcoming prejudice is awesome. A good lesson to be learned presented in a creative and entertaining way.
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Tear jerker.
This movie is phenomenal on every aspect. Hit pretty close to home, I loved everything about this movie and cry every time I watch it. Gifted to my mom for her birthday, big hit. Read more
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Great Movie
I watched this movie, and even downloaded to my computer. It reaaly hits home, and woulg recommended to my friends
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