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foreveryoung 10/20/09

To Save A Life


This past weekend, my husband Arnie and I went to see an advanced showing of To Save A Life, produced by Outreach Films and New Song Pictures. The indie feature file opens theatrically nationwide in January 2010. From my media kit:

 

To Save A Life is the story of an all-star athlete, Jake Taylor (Randy Wayne). After a childhood friend’s death, Jake’s world spins out of control and he has to make changes in his life and sacrifice some dreams to save the lives of others. 

 

Ever since Jake Taylor was a kid, he was the type of guy you couldn’t help but like. For Jake, life is good. He has friends, fame, a basketball scholarship, a future and the hottest girl in the school. Not much to get down about, right?

 

Enter Roger Dawson. He’s Jake’s childhood best friend before Jake’s popularity goes into high gear. Miserable and mad over being on the outside of Jake’s, or anybody’s inner circle, he’s tired of being pushed aside by everyone. He walks onto campus with a gun in his pocket and pain in his heart, and makes a tragic move.

 

Jake is devastated at what Roger has done. And something in him changes. In seeking answers in his own life, one question plagues him the most… Could I have saved him? He is now deeply compelled to reach out to the students who are on the fringe of acceptability by the school’s upper crust. But he finds reaching out to the undesirable threatens his world. He may lose his own friends, his scholarship, his dreams and even his reputation to do it.

 

To Save A Life is a powerful and touching movie about the real-life challenges of teens and their choices. But it's more than just a movie—it's a feature-length film with follow-up opportunities like a youth group curriculum and a teen devotional centered around the biblical concept that we’re never more like Jesus than when we are reaching out to the hurting and lonely.

 

At some point, every teen has to decide: "What's my life going to be about?" To Save A Life dares to bring that question into the teen world, encouraging young people to answer it with boldness, honesty and Christ-likeness.

 

Visit the official movie site and view the trailer at www.tosavealifemovie.com. Check out these tools to help you grow spiritually: To Save A Life novel & non-fiction book---and Devo2Go, a 36 day interactive audio devotional.

 

~ Jackie O.

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