This film is a sequel, taking place a few months after the first film. We are introduced to new characters, and revisit characters from the first film.
A teenager named Brooke is trying to go about her day but is depressed because her brother died in an accident 6 months ago. Her parents seem to be over it and want her to be also. Grace Wesley (Melissa Joan Hart) is Brooke’s history teacher. She is very upbeat and was even voted teacher of the year. She lives with her elderly father whom she takes care of.
Rev. Dave returns and is having a bad day when Reverend Jude (also from the first film) shows up. He will be finishing his doctorate in the states and will be staying there. Amy returns as a journalist she was diagnosed with cancer at the end of the last film and became a Christian while interviewing the Newsboys. She just came from the doctor, and is now friends with the band, and tells them she is cancer free. Now that her illness is in remission, she wants to seek God out while just living her normal life. Martin Yip also returns as a Chinese college student. He became a Christian at the end of the first film and is now seeking answers to many of his questions.
At the end of class Grace notices Brooke seems upset and asks her. Brooke tells her she is fine but later seeks her out to talk. They talk about her loss and she asks Grace how she stays so upbeat all the time. Graces answer is Jesus. Later the Salvation Army comes to pick up her brothers things and a volunteer gives Brooke a Bible she found. Her family is atheist which is why she is confused as to why her brother would have one. Its all marked up with notes and she begins reading it.
In class Grace is talking about Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr’s teachings about peaceful solutions. Brooke raises her hand and asks if it is also similar to Jesus’ teachings. Grace agrees and recites some of Jesus’s words from the Bible to show the similarities. One student takes out his cell phone and tells someone Grace has been preaching in class.
She is called in for disciplinary action and put on paid administrative leave while they investigate. She gets a lawyer from the teachers union a very young lawyer named Tom Endler (Jesse Metcalfe). He is not a Christian but feels as though that will help their case. At the next meeting they offer her a plea just apologize to the Board for her wrongdoing and it will all be over. She refuses as she doesn’t feel as though she did anything wrong she was just quoting someone, not preaching. The case now goes to court.
God’s Not Dead: A Light in Darkness is a Christian drama film that is the third in a series, following the 2014 film God’s Not Dead and the 2016 film God’s Not Dead 2. The film stars David A. R. White, John Corbett, Shane Harper, Benjamin Onyango, Ted McGinley, Jennifer Taylor, Tatum O’Neal, Shwayze and Cissy Houston. The film is directed by Michael Mason and produced by David A. R. White, Michael Scott, Brittany Yost, Elizabeth Travis and Alysoun Wolfe, and the executive producers are Troy Duhon and Robert Katz. Principal photography was completed in December 2017. It released on March 30, 2018.
God’s Not Dead: A Light in Darkness (2018)
Directed by: Michael Mason
Starring: Jennifer Taylor, Tatum O’Neal, John Corbett, Ted McGinley, Shane Harper, David A.R. White, Anne Leighton, David Maldonado, Jude S. Walko, Buddy Campbell, Cissy Houston
Screenplay by: Michael Mason
Production Design by: Mitchell Crisp
Cinematography by: Brian Shanley
Costume Design by: Dana Konick
Art Direction by: Mark Dillon
Music by: Pancho Burgos-Goizueta
Distributed by: Pure Flix
Release Date: March 30, 2018
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