Jim Bakker, Jim J. Bullock, Roseanne, RuPaul, Tammy Faye ...( see more  see more... ) , Tammy Faye Bakker

Tammy Faye Bakker, she of the layers of makeup that made her face into a living Halloween mask, will forever remain a camp icon of '80s culture for many of us. Directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbat...( read more  read more... )o aren't above needling Bakker for her more excessive accouterments, but The Eyes of Tammy Faye is ultimately a loving, sympathetic portrait of "the first lady of televangelism." The film charts her life from traveling evangelist to the mother of three religious cable networks, and her fall from grace when husband Jim Bakker was forced out of the PTL (Praise the Lord) ministry after a scandalous affair. Always entertaining (sock puppets introduce each section) and at times surprising (did you know that Jim and Tammy were the first television ministers to reach out to the gay community and people with AIDS?), it rarely strays from Tammy Faye's version of events. Jerry Falwell becomes the story's sole scapegoat, but even the film's best arguments don't quite make Jim Bakker an innocent victim. But then it's not his film, it's Tammy Faye's, and Bailey and Barbato seem to have fallen in love with their charismatic subject. If nothing else, they reveal the woman behind the cultural joke and celebrate a spiritual survival story. RuPaul Charles narrates, and clips from the 1990 TV movie Fall from Grace feature a young Kevin Spacey as the adulterous preacher. --Sean Axmaker

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PG-13, 80 min.

Directed by: Fenton Bailey, Jim J. Bullock, Randy Barbato, RuPaul, Tammy Faye

Release Date: June 1, 2000

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DVD Release Date: January 30, 2001

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  • February 8, 2008
    For years I thought I basically had an idea of what Tammy Faye Baker was like. As usual, i simply thought what the media wanted me to. Here is a doc showing her for what she really is, a human being. Great stuff, it's nice to be reminded that the people who are portrayed as ca...( read more)ricatures by the media are just as real as you and me, assuming you're not a robot.
  • July 20, 2009
    This bitch is whack! But boy will this flick make you feel for her.
  • April 9, 2009
    this doc will totally change your views of Tammy Faye Baker and it is also very entertaining.






    i laughed too at tammy faye baker but i throughly enjoyed this, I cried and felt her pain and in the end I understood.
  • July 28, 2008
    the makeup was late in the career. Not that its hard, but this really made Jerry Falwell look like an evil, evil person.
  • May 16, 2008
    Tammy Faye Bakker was one scary cow.
  • August 1, 2007
    Made me look beyond the mascara.

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