Machine gun preacher where is he from

Mike Litaker Drifter as Drifter. Peter Tocco Mechanic as Mechanic. Inga R. Wilson Mrs. Shields as Mrs. Shields as Inga Wilson. Marc Forster.

More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, addicted gang biker Sam Childers is released from prison and learns that his wife Lynn is no longer a stripper but has converted to Christianity.

One night, Sam and his best friend Donnie give a ride to a hitchhiker who threatens Donnie with a pocketknife; however Sam reacts and turns the tables on the stranger. Sam is affected by the incident and is convinced by Lynn and his mother Daisy to join their church, and he is baptized.

Sam finds a straight job in construction. When he meets a preacher from Africa, he decides to visit the continent. Further, he fights whenever necessary and becomes a legend known as The Machine Gun Preacher.

Hope is the greatest weapon of all. Action Biography Crime Drama. Rated R for violent content including disturbing images, language, some drug use and a scene of sexuality. Did you know Edit. Trivia The real Sam Childers, on whom the story is based, shows screenings of a heavily-edited version of the film in churches around the world, the proceeds of which are used to support his ongoing work in South Sudan. Quotes William : If we allow ourselves to be full of hate, then they've won.

User reviews Review. Top review. That day could come. That day might not. You should have a sign up, "Number of days since last death threat. In the last few months. But you know, you always get people talking.

We have a free country. People say what they want to say. Do you know the most money that's been offered? SC: No, I don't, and I don't really desire to know.

I tell people, if you want to be a coward and take me from the back, go ahead. If you want to be a man, meet me from the front. For "Machine Gun Preacher," what was the hardest question Gerard asked you about your experiences? SC: I believe the things that bother me the most that I have to tell is not of the children that were rescued; it was the children that were left behind.

Or it was the children that I've seen that you couldn't rescue. That were already dead or already starved or blown up. In south Sudan many years ago it was nothing to come across the body of a child or the body of a grown-up that stepped on a land mine.

That's probably the hardest thing that I'd ever have to explain to anyone, is actually the children that we could not rescue. Jason, how anxious were you going into that setting? Not many people traveling for a job need kidnapping and dismemberment insurance. JK: I remember telling my wife—I don't know how that slipped, or she saw an email or something. She was sort of, "Really? This is for real? You're going to Sudan? Because at the end of the day although we crossed over into Sudan and we spent a couple weeks at the orphanage, although there wasn't immediate fighting in that area there had been fighting not too long before we had been there.

So there wasn't any battles happening right around us but the threat was always there. It was nerve-wracking.

What was going through your head that first moment? And we would travel in convoys because as I learned over there it's safety in numbers. So we would be in three or four trucks at a time. So intellectually I knew we were probably safe.

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How did you buy your ticket? View All Photos Movie Info. Sam Childers Gerard Butler , a former biker, decides to go to East Africa to help repair homes destroyed by civil war. Transformed by the horrors he sees, Sam ignores the warnings of more experienced aide workers and breaks ground for an orphanage in the heart of territory controlled by a brutal renegade militia.

But establishing a shelter is not enough; determined to save as many lives as possible, Sam leads armed missions into enemy territory to rescue kidnapped children. Drama, Biography. Marc Forster. Jason Keller. Sep 23, limited. Jun 5, Relativity Media. Gerard Butler Sam Childers. Michelle Monaghan Lynn Childers.

Michael Shannon Donnie. Kathy Baker Daisy. Madeline Carroll Paige. Ryann Campos Young Paige. Grant R. Krause Billy, Contractor. Mandalynn Carlson Paige's Friend. Marc Forster Director.

Jason Keller Screenwriter. Robbie Brenner Producer.