Title: The Pussycat Preacher
Director: Bill Day
Producer: Bill Day, Charles Bruce (Co)
Cinema: Bill Day
Editor: Bill Day
Music: Javier De La Joya
Year: 2007 (75 minutes)
Synopsis: Heather Veitch is out of control. She is a stripper, soft-porn actress, sex addict, boozer and S&M queen. Then one day she finds religion. She marries her boyfriend, trains herself to be a hair stylist, and starts going to church. The congregation doesn’t accept her at first, but after she teaches some of the wives how to strip for their husbands, Heather is in demand. Guilty about leaving so many friends behind, Heather comes up with an idea. If she could start a small ministry at her church to reach out to women in the sex industry, then perhaps she could save some lives. The Pussycat Preacher, the newest documentary from Bill Day (Missionary Positions 2005), follows Heather’s new mission to help those she feels are in desperate need to accept Christ. But while the sex industry welcomes her JC’s Girls organization, powerful forces in the Church refuse to tolerate Heather’s “immoral ministry.” Despite hate mail and death threats accusing her of “prostituting the Gospel,” Heather refuses to back down from her belief that only love can change the world – setting the stage for a climatic showdown that threatens to bring down her Pastor and his church. The Pussycat Preacher ultimately is a story of divine inspiration versus the forces of hypocrisy that will inspire everyone – all religions included.
Review: Now here’s an interesting story. Heather Veitch is a stripper and a soft-core porn actress. She’s into drugs and booze, and living a very wild life. Then, she finds God, joins a church and starts her own ministry targeted toward women in the sex industry.
With an interesting story to tell, director Bill Day did a great job of telling the story. He doesn’t pull any punches telling the story of Heather’s previous life. She’s a mess and Day shows us how much of a mess she really is. He also shows us how Heather pulls herself out of the mess using her faith in God to overcome her past and to fight against those that would like to keep her out of the church.
The Pussycat Preacher tells the story of an unlikely minister preaching a message of love and hope to an unlikely congregation. It is a film of hope, redemption, and overcoming the forces of hypocrisy and intolerance. The Pussycat Preacher is a winner.
(3.5 out of 5.0)
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