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The cover of the dvd has Danny Trejo holding a baseball bat with a fierce look. It's billed on the back as an "action" movie. There's no action. Zero. Zip. Nada. None at all. Which is fine if you aren't being mislead about the content. The content is more of an indie comedy. The main character, Shepherd, played by someone called Pastor Shepherd (not kidding), is given zero billing. I had to dig around to find his name. His image, even though he is the main character that predominates every scene, is not on the cover. This is just a boring, weird, meandering movie where you desperately wait and wait for something, anything, interesting to happen but it never does. It's beneath Danny Trejo.

It isn't what I expected. I thought it was an Indie but it's actually a Christian film. I'm watching it now and am halfway thru it. The flaw is the main character has some issues. Eating unhealthy, drinking, but she keeps saying she's 20 lbs overweight. They try to strategically not show her whole body with the camera angles but slip a couple shots in. She's not overweight at all. Not 20 lbs even. She's skinny. The actress is good at conveying this type of lifestyle of this kind of person who has the issues she has really well though.

I didn't watch the Roseanne reboot so don't know what that was like and when it was cancelled, they talked about doing it without her. I thought that would be stupid--to do essentially "Roseanne" w/o Roseanne. Had no intention of watching this. Saw it come up on Hulu and figured "What the hell? Might as well check it out". Was surprised that they make it work pretty well. Her death and Dan's struggles with that are handled with insight and sensitivity and all the characters are endearing. Compelling storylines and still warm and funny as always.