Chiwetel Ejiofor experiences a crisis of faith in Netflix’s ‘Come Sunday’ trailer

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Academy Award nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) stars Come Sunday, the real-life story of internationally-renowned pastor Carlton Pearson who risks his church, family, and future when he questions church doctrine and finds himself branded a modern-day heretic.

Pastor D’metrius Carlton Pearson was the pastor of the Higher Dimensions Family church of Tulsa, Oklahoma in the 1990s. With a congregation of over 5,000 and was one of only two African-American ministers to have a nationally televised program. It reached hundreds of thousands, earned him a White House visit from then President George W. Bush.

After having an epiphany about God, that included questioning the existence of Hell, his congregation and was declared a heretic by his peers in 2004.

Joshua Marston (Maria Full of Grace) directs this drama from a screenplay by Marcus Hinchey (All Good Things) and also stars Emmy and Golden Globe award winner Martin Sheen (The West Wing), Emmy nominee Danny Glover (Lethal Weapon series), Jason Segel (The End of the Tour), Lakeith Stanfield (Get Out) and Condola Rashad (Billions).

Come Sunday debuted at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. It airs globally on Netflix April 13th. Here is the trailer.

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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