Jesus Revolution

Dramatizes the real life unlikely convergence of beliefs in late-1960s Southern California. Chuck Smith Jr. is the pastor of the mostly empty Calvary Chapel, and thus is becoming less and less relevant professionally in society in preaching to those exactly like him: middle age and conservative. He is also becoming less and less connected to his now teen daughter Janette Smith, who considers him, to use her vernacular, the squarest person in the world. In he not understanding or having met hippies who Janette says are just trying to find love and peace in the world, he is surprised when Janette takes him up on what was his joke offer to bring a hippie into their home to speak to him. That hippie is Lonnie Frisbee, physically looking like Jesus, Lonnie who ends up transforming Chuck's view of life and religion, much against the comfort felt by his conservative congregation. Into Chuck and Lonnie's new movement enters teenagers Greg Laurie and his girlfriend Cathe Martin. Living in a trailer on the beach with his single party-hearty mother Charlene, Greg was attending military school in Charlene wanting some discipline in his life, when he ventured to the nearby high school where he met upper middle class Cathe, who opened his eyes to a less structured environment that was her social circle. As Chuck and Lonnie's movement, now including Greg and Cathe, started to grow to epic proportions, the questions become whether that success would overtake what was inherent to what made them a success and whether their alliances could withstand the pressures of that success.