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The Rapture
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The Rapture is a 1991 American religious drama film written and directed by Micheal Tolkin and starring Mimi Rogers and David Duchovny.It centers around Sharon (Rogers), a woman in Los Angeles who works in a boring job by day and lives a swinging lifestyle by night. Finding both empty, she is intrigued when she overhears some coworkers discussing the prophesied end of the world, involving the Rapture where true believers will be taken bodily up to heaven. After learning more, Sharon becomes convinced their belief is true, becoming a born-again Christian. She tells Randy (Duchovny), a fellow swinger, and converts him as well. Six years later, they are married with a daughter and active in their church. However, Sharon's faith is tested when tragedy strikes and her world starts to unravel...Patrick Bauchau appears as Vic, Sharon's swinging partner. Will Patton shows up in the third act as a cop who keeps an eye out on Sharon and her daughter Mary in the desert. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: The child prophet, aged into a teenaged boy after the six year Time Skip, says at a service that "The rapture is coming," and then predicts that it will come this year. | |
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Suicide Is Shameful | |
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Suicide Is Shameful: After she kills her daughter, Sharon can't go through with killing herself, due to the belief she'll go to hell rather than heaven. | |
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The Hedonist | |
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The Hedonist: Sharon, Randy and the other swingers. Sharon is tired of the lifestyle though and becomes a Christian, bringing Randy with her. | |
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Offing the Offspring | |
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Offing the Offspring: Sharon murders her daughter to hasten her entry to heaven. | |
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Nay-Theist | |
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Nay-Theist: Sharon becomes one after her husband and daughter die, believing that God abandoned them. | |
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I Have a Family | |
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I Have a Family: Randy says "I have a little girl" to the shotgun-toting Spree Killer who is shooting up his place of business. The shooter promptly kills him. | |
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Credits Gag | |
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Credits Gag: A "Miriam Spickler" is listed in the end credits as "Troubleshooter." Miriam Spickler is Mimi Rogers' real name. | |
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Spree Killer | |
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Spree Killer: Randy is murdered when an employee that he fired returns with a shotgun and goes on a killing spree. | |
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Central Theme | |
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Central Theme: How much are you willing to sacrifice in the name of your belief? If there is a biblical God is he actually an all-loving Creator or actually an all-powerful dictator? | |
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Time Skip | |
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Time Skip: Sharon succeeds in recruiting Randy to the church. Cut to "SIX YEARS LATER" and Sharon and Randy attending a service, married, with a daughter. | |
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Self-Inflicted Hell | |
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Self-Inflicted Hell: Sharon refuses to enter heaven, even if she can see her daughter and husband again, remaining in an empty desert place by herself forever because she refuses to accept God. | |
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Jerkass Gods | |
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Jerkass Gods: Although not malicious enough to qualify as evil, during the rapture God allows many people including atheists into heaven but he also destroys both the earth and universe and demands love and servitude and withholds peace and happiness from those that don’t. | |
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God Is Evil | |
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God Is Evil: Sharon comes to believe this. The film does explore this question; not only believers but atheists get a chance to enter heaven but only if they accept God. Sharon remains in purgatory by her own choice. | |
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Shower Scene | |
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Shower Scene: An unconventional example—naked Mimi Rogers, everybody, but in a scene where Sharon is taking a scalding hot shower at 3 am so she can get "clean" before accepting God into her life, while telling Randy that she doesn't want to have a guilty conscience any more. | |
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Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life | |
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Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: How Sharon winds up getting involved in evangelical Christianity. She's bored both by her boring job and by her swinger lifestyle, which has lost its novelty. | |
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Three-Way Sex | |
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Threeway Sex: Sharon, a swinger, has a threeway early on with a man and woman. | |
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Never My Fault | |
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Never My Fault: Sharon comes off this way after murdering her daughter, blaming it all on God. | |
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Non-Nude Bathing | |
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Non-Nude Bathing: Sharon has a Shower of Angst with her clothes still on, after backsliding into her old ways and taking a hitchhiker to a sleazy motel for sex. | |
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Ms. Fanservice | |
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Ms. Fanservice: Sharon early on is a swinger and shown topless while in sex scenes, often with the focus on her very large breasts. | |
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Caught Up in the Rapture | |
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Caught Up in the Rapture: The evangelical church Sharon and Randy join believes this will happen. At the end of the film, they're proven right. | |
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Rage Against the Heavens | |
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Rage Against the Heavens: Sharon denounces God after she kills her daughter. | |
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Really Gets Around | |
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Really Gets Around: Sharon at the start of the film given her swinger lifestyle, plus her boyfriend, Randy and the other swingers seen. Initially it appears Sharon and her boyfriend spend each night after work cruising around to find other people who they can have sex with. | |
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Archangel Gabriel | |
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Archangel Gabriel: He appears on horseback, blowing his trumpet, signaling the apocalypse at the end of the film. | |
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Pride | |
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Pride: Sharon's Fatal Flaw. According to Roger Ebert: | |
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Mundane Afterlife | |
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Mundane Afterlife: The purgatory-like place Sharon ends up in is a vast empty, featureless desert. | |
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Soul-Crushing Desk Job | |
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Soul-Crushing Desk Job: Sharon is a telephone operator, back in the day when there were telephone operators. All she does all day is ask the people calling in for numbers "Is that a business or residence?", before telling them to "Hold for the number." Over and over again. Even the room she works in is boring, with literally the whole room colored in shades of gray. | |
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Religion Is Right | |
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Religion Is Right: At first it seems like Sharon's beliefs are not only wrong, but delusional and destructive. By the end of the film, the rapture really does happen and the believers are proven right. However the film itself is more nuanced on the subject and questions whether, even if what they believe is true, is it morally right? | |
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The End of the World as We Know It | |
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The End of the World as We Know It: At the end of the movie Sharon and her fellow believers are proven right when the rapture happens. | |
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Hollywood Atheist | |
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Hollywood Atheist: Zigzagged. Randy is initially an atheist who defends his hedonistic swinger lifestyle by saying it's a biological imperative for humans to have sex. Then he converts to evangelical Christianity almost effortlessly when Sharon tells him about the idea. Later, we meet Foster, who says he's been an atheist all of his life but is a normal, morally upright man who converts after seeing really good evidence. | |
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Contrived Coincidence | |
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Contrived Coincidence: Who is Sharon's cell mate after she is arrested for the murder of her daughter? The hot babe with the back tattoo who was her partner in a foursome in the first act. (Tattoo Lady has also found God in the meantime.) | |
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Whole-Plot Reference | |
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Whole-Plot Reference: Sharon is basically Job questioning God at the end. Unlike him though, she doesn't reconcile with God. | |
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Barred from the Afterlife | |
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Barred from the Afterlife: Sharon refuses to give up her anger at God for what people go through and is literally "left behind" across the river, unable to enter Heaven. When asked by her daughter if she knows how long she'll have to stay there she answers: "Yes. Forever." | |
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Silent Credits | |
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Silent Credits: The credits play out in complete silence after the ending, where Sharon rejects God and decides to stay in purgatory. | |
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Fanservice Extra | |
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Fanservice Extra: Several minor characters are shown nude or having sex along with the protagonists early on. | |
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Intimate Marks | |
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Intimate Marks: Angie, one of the swingers, has a tattoo which goes down her whole back and buttocks, which is seen when she's having sex with a man at an orgy. She apparently got it all in one night, and Angie is quite touchy at being asked questions about this. | |
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Easy Evangelism | |
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Easy Evangelism: Sharon easily becomes a born-again Christian, but it's somewhat justified as she felt her current life was empty. Randy however is also easily converted, though he initially resisted. | |
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Real After All | |
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Real After All: At first it seems like Sharon's beliefs are destructive and misplaced, causing a terrible tragedy. Then they get confirmed at the end of the film. | |
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Answer Cut: Sharon, who has heard passing reference to a child prophet, asks "Who is the boy?" Cut to the boy, a child of maybe eight, prophesying in a meeting that Sharon is attending. | |
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Crisis of Faith | |
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Crisis of Faith: Sharon undergoes one after her husband's senseless murder. It only gets worse from there. | |
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