The Movie: The Rapture (1991)
What Is It?: A
year before writing the more renowned The
Player, Michael Tolkin wrote and directed a film that walks the line
between camp and dead seriousness, leaping onto each side at key points along
the way. Mimi Rogers is fantastic as a promiscuous woman who becomes a
born-again Christian, and does some truly horrible, horrible things for her
god. The “fuck you” ending will have you standing on your seat and screaming,
“Right on, Mimi!”
Why Today?: On
this day in 1956, Mimi Rogers is born.
