Highest rated movie: The F Word (2005)
Lowest rated movie: What Would Jesus Buy? (2007)
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Looking for reviews of Reverend Billy movies? Cinafilm has a total of 199 reviews across 2 movies.
Movies starring Reverend Billy have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 65%.
The F Word - released in 2005 - is Reverend Billy's highest rated movie, with a score of 69% based on 24 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Reverend Billy is What Would Jesus Buy? - released in 2007 - with a score of 61% based on 175 reviews.
The character of Reverend Billy was developed in the early 1990s by actor and playwright, William Talen. He grew up in small towns throughout Minnesota, South Dakota and Wisconsin. He left home at 16, moving east with Charles and Patricia Gaines, a writer and painter who encouraged him as an artist. Talen began to perform his poems and stories, hitch-hiking from Philadelphia to New York to San Francisco. His chief collaborator in developing the Reverend Billy character was the Reverend Sidney Lanier, a cousin of Tennessee Williams. Lanier was vicar of The St. Clement's in the 1960s, an Episcopal Church in Hell's Kitchen in Manhattan. In an effort to increase attendance at St. Clement's, Lanier had torn out the altar and pews, inviting actors to perform scenes from plays by Tennessee Williams and Terrence McNally, and founding founding the American Place Theater. Lanier described Talen as "more of a preacher with a gift for social prophecy than an actor.
Reverend Billy has acted in films with Sam Rockwell, Josh Hamilton, Callie Thorne and Zak Orth.
Reverend Billy has worked with these film directors: Rob VanAlkemade and Jed Weintrob.
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