Dial A Prayer (2015) Movie Critic Review

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Dial A Prayer (2015) Movie Critic Review
Rating:     Rated PG-13 for thematic elements, brief strong language, some drug use and suggestive material
Official Site:     https://www.facebook.com/DAPMovie
Production:     Compass Entertainment
Genres:     Drama, Comedy
Country:     USA
Language:     English
Director:      Maggie Kiley
Stars:        Marty Bufalini, Alicia Clark, Cole Corey

Dial A Prayer (2015) Critic Review: Cora begrudgingly answers phones at a Prayer Call Center under the watchful direction of its religious leader Bill. As she struggles to reconcile her troubled past, she grapples with the faith that others have started to show in her.

IMDB By 5.3 : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3593666/

Dial A Prayer Movie Review By MDBReviews 

No conviction-based action or sudden otherworldly change conveyed Cora to the dial-a-supplication to God call focus in rural Detroit. A judge made that her group administration sentence. Since Cora committed an enormous error, one with religious ramifications.

She doesn’t “believe.” Her “How may I pray for you today?” isn’t sincere. She’s reading from a corporate playbook designed to nudge callers into subscribing or donating.

She watches the clock. And when it’s quitting time, she’s gotten her last pep talk from the preacher/boss (William H. Macy), her last coaching from the zealous author of the playbook (Aral Gribble). She can light a joint in the privacy of her car, maybe hit the liquor store on her way home, where her sad, wit’s-end mother (Glenne Headly) half-heartedly nags the 26 year-old, knowing it won’t do any good.

"Dial a Prayer" isn't your go on and on needlessly assortment religious film. It's sufficiently negative to recommend the pointlessness of supplication to God, snarky enough to call attention to the main thing, even at such a call focus. Be that as it may Cora, played with a blame ridden flinch by Brittany Snow , is made a beeline for a, for need of a superior expression, "Come to Jesus minute." We can feel it, with each flashback that recounts to her shameful back story, with each thought up request to God she offers, by telephone, to an outsider.

Snow’s Cora never reveals herself to be “a natural” at this. But results turn up — she becomes “a rock star” operator, piling up the call log results, and a seemingly upright young man (Tom Lipinski) who was touched by her call and came to meet her.
Writer-director Maggie Kiley wrote, shoots and edits this in such a way that we wonder, given Cora’s mental state, if she’s imagining things like laying her hands on heart attack or traffic accident victims.

Cora resists the religious entreaties of her convincingly zealous boss (Macy), but not his threats about the judge who gave her this last chance at redemption. She lashes out at an absentee dad, a weak mother and at religion itself.

"Dial a Prayer" doesn't tread the straight and limited and achieves couple of unsurprising decisions about Cora's trip. Yet Kiley has made a really fascinating and to some degree moving story of a childish, self-ruinous smashed who finds, if not confidence, at any rate the readiness to look outside of herself to help out others and the opportunity to really join humankind.

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