Machine Gun Preacher

Machine Gun Preacher

Theatrical - Wide 2011-09-23

Cast Gerard Butler Michelle Monaghan Kathy Baker Michael Shannon Madeline Carroll
Directed by Marc Forster
Written by Jason Keller

Box Office Gross: $3,338,690

Running Time: 129 minutes

Language: English

Production Company: Virgin Produced, Relativity Media, Mpower Pictures, Apparatus Productions, GG Filmz, 1984 Private Defense Contractors, ITS Capital, Merlina Entertainment, MGP Productions, Moonlighting Films, Safady Entertainment

Genres: Action Crime Thriller

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The true story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing biker who finds God and became a crusader for hundreds of Sudanese children who’ve been kidnapped and pressed into duty as soldiers.

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Review: Machine Gun Preacher

Posted 15 years ago

PLOT: The true story of Sam Childers (Gerard Butler); a drug addict biker who, thanks to the encouragement of his faithful wife (Michelle Monaghan), finds God and becomes a born-again Christian. After a minister from the Sudan visits his church,...

Gerard Butler has bullets and a cause in the trailer for Machine Gun Preacher

Posted 15 years ago

Before dealing with the looming zompocalypse of WORLD WAR Z, director Marc Forster (MONSTER’S BALL, QUANTUM OF SOLACE) helped Gerard Butler get serious (if melodramatic) with a Real Life Problem in MACHINE GUN PREACHER. The movie also features Michelle Monaghan,...

First Look: Gerard Butler in Machine Gun Preacher

Posted 15 years ago

Gerard Butler has moved on from Jennifer Aniston and stepped into serious drama territory. When was the last time that we got anything from the MACHINE GUN PREACHER front? When I first heard the title for this film, without knowing...

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