Walking With Herb Review: Edward James Olmos Lifts Faith-based, Golf-centric Comedy Drama
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
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Legendary actor Edward James Olmos says he has clung to his faith throughout life tragedies even as he recently lost family members due to COVID-19 and is encouraging others to cling to God in both the good times and bad.
Olmos is the lead actor of the new faith-filled film “Walking With Herb, a comedy film directed by Ross Marks. Along with Olmos, the film features Kathleen Quinlan and George Lopez. I believe that the story itself was one that I was so grateful [that it] found my door. [Writer] Mark Medoff wrote it for me and with me in mind to play the role. That very seldom happens,” Olmos told The Christian Post in a recent interview.
Quinlan plays Sheila Amable-Amo in the film, which was filmed in Las Cruces and Artesia.
The film follows 65-five-year-old Joe, played by Olmos, who is struggling with his faith as his 3-year-old granddaughter and her father have just died.
While at work, he receives a message from God on his computer screen that tells him he has been chosen to deliver an inspirational message to the world that the seemingly impossible is possible.
God tells Joe, a former amateur golfer, that he is going to play in the World Golf Championship tournament, and that if his faith is strong enough, he will win.
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George Lopez stars in faith-based movie Walking with Herb; on God helping him find humor in darkest time
Tiffany BarnesApr 28, 2021 11:37 PM EDT
Optism EntertainmentStill frame from Walking with Herb YouTube trailer
George Lopez, renown actor and comedian and a big star in the forthcoming faith-based movie Walking with Herb, reveals that his faith in God shaped and guided him through the darkest periods of his life, in an interview with Christian Post. Walking with Herb is exclusively in theaters on April 30, May 1, and May 3 for a limited-three-night engagement of Fathom Events. A comedy film directed by Ross Marks, it stars Edward James Olmos and Kathleen Quinlan, alongside Lopez. Based on the book of the same title by author Joe S. Bullock, this film shows an amateur golfer receives a life-transforming message from a messenger of God on his computer screen as he struggles with a crisis of faith.