Flywheel (film)

Flywheel is a 2003 American Christian drama film about the unexpected pitfalls that a used car dealer can expect to experience if he suddenly goes honest. The dealer intentionally overcharges his customers until reaching a turning point in his life where he decides to end his shady business practices and become a Christian. Alex Kendrick both directed the film and starred in the lead role, and with his brother, Stephen Kendrick, cowrote the film. Flywheel also stars Lisa Arnold and Tracy Goode.

Jay Austin Alex Kendrick is a car salesman who consistently cheats his customers, even to the point of overcharging his own pastor. He teaches his rotund salesmen, Bernie Meyers Tracy Goode and Vince Berkeley Treavor Lokey, to do likewise. Jay occasionally attends church, but only because his wife Judy Janet Lee Dapper wants him to go. He also fakes giving a donation to the church. His relationships with his wife and son Richie Hunnewell, who both disapprove of his dishonesty, deteriorate. In addition he is facing foreclosure on his lot by the bank. Jay becomes troubled in his conscience, and one day while flipping television channels, he sees a pastor preaching that youre in the shape youre in today because of the choices youve made. Jay becomes personally convicted and becomes a bornagain Christian, prompting him to change his business practices.Jay apologizes to his pregnant wife and his son and decides to sell cars honestly from that point on. However, he is now thousands of dollars in debt and facing the loss of his dealership if he cant catch up on his payments to the bank. Jay decides not to worry about his situation and to let God handle it, telling the Lord that it is His lot. After the two rotund salesmen, whose interactions often provide comedy, leave over a disagreement about the newly reformed business practices, a young, innocentlooking newcomer Kevin Cantrell Daniel Titus comes to Jay to work for six weeks and asks him questions, such as how he sells cars. Jay answers by saying, Just sell the car to them by its real price and God will decide. Sales are honest, but the amounts are mediocre at best. Kevin leaves after the six weeks, but later Jay sees himself on television as part of a news investigation on car dealerships. Kevin was a carefully concealed undercover agent investigating which car dealers cheat, and the report says that Jay Austin Motors was the only honest dealership among them. The next day Jay comes to the lot and sees many people the

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