It isn’t “Heaven Is for Real,” either.
The new film “Chasing the Rain” may be bookended by Christmas scenes and deal with Christian themes, but theologian and pastor Greg Boyd puts it in the genre of Job, the biblical book about one man’s unrelenting suffering.
The film which follows a struggling young photographer named Eric through one bad break after another released on Amazon Prime Video just before the holidays.
“The movie at its core is not just about the spiritual themes. It’s also about some human themes just what loneliness looks like, what grief looks like,” said Grand Rapids, Michigan-based filmmaker Cindy Jansen, who wrote, directed and produced the film.