Saved!

Saved! is a 2004 comedy film written by Brian Dannelly and Michael Urban, and directed by Dannelly. It stars Jena Malone, Mandy Moore, Macaulay Culkin, Patrick Fugit, Martin Donovan, and Mary-Louise Parker. It was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia but set in suburban Baltimore, Maryland. Michael Stipe of the band R.E.M. is one of the film's producers.

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The movie's plot revolves around Mary (Malone), a senior at a Christian high school in Baltimore, Maryland, who becomes pregnant because she believes Jesus wants her to have sex with her boyfriend to help save him from being a homosexual.

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Yet, her boyfriend is still gay and when his parents send him off to a ex-gay clinic, Mary is left alone to deal with her pregnancy, and being an unpopular teenage girl, with a group of unpopular friends, and a crush on a cute boy. Through her adolescence trials and tribulations she begins to question her religion and what she really believes.

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The film is generally agreed to be a larger critique of Christian fundamentalists that are arrogant, talk down to the disabled or non-Christians, and in general demonize, antagonize, and try to change others who will not follow their religious practice as they do. Whether or not it is specifically a critique of Christianity itself is debatable.

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Tagline: Heaven help us.

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