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102 E. Fifth St., Durango, 247-8133, www.allentheatresinc.com Walking with Herb
Sixty-five-year-old Joe Amable-Amo is struggling with his faith as his 3-year-old granddaughte.
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Divine intervention enables an aging bank president to stop puttering around and compete for a golf championship.
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Director: Ross Kagan Marks
With: Edward James Olmos, George Lopez, Kathleen Quinlan, Jessica Medoff, Christopher McDonald, Billy Boyd, Johnathan McClain, Tami Lee Santimyer.
Running time: Running time: 110 MIN.
Since we’ve already had faith-based features involving football (“Woodlawn,” “Facing the Giants”), baseball (“Where Hope Grows”), basketball (“Slamma Jamma”), boxing (“Carman: The Champion”), competitive skateboarding (“Hardflip”) and even mixed martial arts (“The Fight Within”), it was doubtless inevitable that someone would produce a movie where the Lord works in mysterious ways on the golf course. Robert Redford’s “The Legend of Bagger Vance” (2000) didn’t quite qualify, given the n
LAS CRUCES – Walking With Herb is now on the big screen.
The Las Cruces movie, years in the making, was shown for a large audience for the first time Thursday with a red carpet premiere at Amador Live.
“Walking with Herb filmed in Las Cruces in 2018 is based off the 2015 novel of the same name by Joe Bullock, of First American Bank in Las Cruces. The book was adapted into a screenplay by the late Tony Award winner Mark Medoff, also a longtime New Mexico State University professor, and was directed by Medoff s son-in-law Ross Marks, the executive director of the Las Cruces International Film Festival and NMSU professor.