Higher Ground (film)

Higher Ground is a 2011 American drama film directed by Vera Farmiga in her directorial debut. The film is an adaptation of the 2002 memoir This Dark World A Memoir of Salvation Found and Lost by Carolyn S. Briggs, who cowrote the screenplay. The film follows Corinne Walker Farmiga and her vacillating relationship with Christianity. The cast also includes Joshua Leonard, John Hawkes, Donna Murphy, Norbert Leo Butz, and Bill Irwin.

Corinne Walker is a young girl who is skeptical about God. After the stillbirth of her brother, her parents marriage disintegrates over the course of several years. As a teenager Taissa Farmiga, she meets Ethan Boyd Holbrook, a budding musician in local rock band The Renegades. They get married after Corinne becomes pregnant, and have their daughter Abigail. While touring with Ethans band, their bus crashes into a river. Ethan rushes to save Abby, and Corinne pleads with God to save her. Abby is pulled out of the bus before it sinks into the water, and Ethan believes that God wanted them to live. Ethan and Corinne grow more and more interested in Jesus, eventually giving themselves over to a radical New Testament church.As adults, Corinne Vera Farmiga and Ethan Joshua Leonard are living with their children Abigail and Lilly amidst a community of selfdescribed Jesus freaks. Corinnes daily life consists of hours of Bible study, alternative family practices, and bracing for the oncoming Rapture. The husbands are told by Pastor Bill Norbert Leo Butz that they should pay more attention to their wives sexual needs after a fellow husbands indiscretions caused his wife to leave with their children. Corinnes closest friend Annika Dagmara Domiczyk also warns her about keeping the marriage alive by trying new things, such as drawing their husbands penises. ........

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