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CATCHING FAITH

An engaging Christian drama about choosing faith when life falls apart.

2015Not Rated88 minutesImage Entertainment/RLJ Entertainment/Pure Flix EntertainmentDrama
Worth the trip.
ENTERTAINMENT QUALITY ★★★★ 3 / 4 Engaging, capable Christian filmmaking.
FAMILY CONTENT Family +3 on the +4 to −4 scale Appropriate for the whole family.
CONTENT LEVELS NONE → HEAVY
Language None
Violence Light
Sex None
Nudity None
BEST FOR Older children to adults, families, and youth groups.
CONTENT IN ONE LINE Underage drinking, cheating, lying, and sports-related violence are present but rebuked, with conflicts positively resolved.
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Should You Watch It?

CATCHING FAITH takes the complicated choices facing modern Christian families seriously. Alexa Taylor appears to have a perfect life, but the death of her father exposes problems involving her children, her marriage, and her family relationships. Those struggles give the film a clear question: Will the Taylors trust God and do what is right when obedience is difficult?

The movie offers strong Christian answers about honesty, integrity, faith, forgiveness, and doing God’s will. Underage drinking and cheating are not celebrated; they are treated as wrong choices from which the characters must turn. The film also makes room for meaningful conversations about faith, including a women’s small group working through “The Elijah Project.”

Some dialogue is overpowered by the music, and the climax arrives too early. Still, CATCHING FAITH is an honest, engaging choice for a family or youth group.

The Story

NO SPOILERS — WE KEEP THE SURPRISES

Alexa Taylor seems to have everything: a successful husband, a son who stars on his high-school football team, and a daughter with a bright academic future. But when Alexa’s father dies suddenly, the Taylor family’s carefully ordered life begins to crack.

One troubling event follows another, forcing Alexa, her husband, and their children to confront difficult choices. As the family wrestles with faith, honesty, and responsibility, they must decide whether doing the right thing matters even when it costs them.

Is It Any Good?

Three stars means CATCHING FAITH is a solid, genuinely engaging Christian drama with noticeable flaws. Director John K.D. Graham brings capable direction, good camerawork, and strong performances, especially from Dariush Moslemi and Garrett Westton.

The film’s internal faith struggles are given external conflicts that audiences can follow. That makes the characters’ journeys accessible, even when the script becomes choppy. Some lengthy small-group scenes can feel like an advertisement for the Bible study behind the film, though the dialogue also contains important moments of recognition and reversal.

The music sometimes overpowers the dialogue, and the climax arrives a little too early. Alexandra Boylan is effective as the villain.

The Worldview

CATCHING FAITH presents a strong Christian worldview centered on a question of faith: Will the Taylor family trust God and do the right thing? The film exalts honesty, integrity, faith, forgiveness, prayer, church, worship, and the healing work of Jesus Christ’s gospel.

The movie directly confronts sinful choices. Underage drinking, cheating on a test, and lying within a marriage are treated as wrong rather than harmless behavior. The characters must wrestle with those decisions and turn toward God’s will. The film also values restoration, showing dysfunctional relationships between parents and children moving toward positive resolution.

One point deserves discussion: by the end, the characters are rewarded for following God’s plan by receiving the things they wanted during the story. Families or youth groups may want to ask whether obedience is faithful only when it produces the desired outcome.

The film’s central longing is for people and relationships to be made right. Scripture says, “Behold, I am making all things new” (Revelation 21:5).

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The Content Guide

The specifics — spoilers included by nature — so you can judge for your own family.

Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements

Powerful, very strong Christian, biblical worldview showing the love and healing of Jesus Christ’s gospel, strong redemptive and restorative themes, strong moral points, and references to prayer, church, and worship

Foul Language

No foul language

Violence

Some sports-related minor violence (football tackling, etc.)

Sex

No sexual content

Nudity

No nudity

Alcohol Use

Underage drinking but rebuked

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse

No smoking or drug use;

Miscellaneous Immorality

Cheating on tests but rebuked, lying to a spouse but rebuked, and several dysfunctional relationships between parents and children, but the personal conflicts are positively resolved and the relationships restored.

Talk About It

Questions for the drive home, the dinner table, or the youth group.

01

When doing the right thing becomes difficult, what does it mean to trust God rather than simply seek the outcome you want?

Proverbs 3:5–6 · Galatians 6:9
02

The film treats underage drinking and cheating as choices that must be rebuked. How can Christians correct wrongdoing while still offering forgiveness and restoration?

Galatians 6:1 · Ephesians 4:32
03

Why do honesty and integrity matter inside a marriage and a family, especially when a lie seems easier in the moment?

Ephesians 4:25 · Proverbs 12:22
04

What can help restore relationships between parents and children after conflict?

Colossians 3:12–14 · Ephesians 6:1–4

The Final Word

CATCHING FAITH is an engaging, honest Christian drama that faces real family struggles and points toward faith, forgiveness, and restoration. Its flaws do not erase its strong message or its usefulness for family and youth-group discussion. WORTH THE TRIP.

THE VERDICT Worth the trip.
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