the apostle have some good point and among them competent actor and good production value and convincing location . the noisy bible belt meeting be amaze to a foreigner and but nonetheless believable . however the inappropriate casting and mumble dialogue and and the poor script and direction appear to me to be unforgivable self indulgence on the part of the film maker . duvall be about 20 year too old for the role he play . the main character be supposedly bear around 1936 and and the car in the late scene be early 1980s model and so the duvall character would then have be about 46. in fact duvall be 66 in 1997. for this reason and it take me some time to work out that farah fawcett and 16 year his junior and be his wife and not his daughter or niece . in the early scene at the car wreck site and the woman rid with duvall and anne carter cash and born 2 year before duvall and appear to be his wife . nowhere in the film be it explain how she come to give birth to the duvall character when she be only 2 year old . and while we be on that scene and do police officer at a crash scene really stand around on the roadway chat while in the adjacent field the injure be die in one of the car and with nobody pay them any attention and let alone render assistance . i find this astonishing and and unconvincing . with a good script and a more competent director and and of course an actor of the right age and this could have be a good movie . peter h .