Tribulation (2000)

Director:

André van Heerden

Writers:

Peter Lalonde (screenplay) and
Paul Lalonde (screenplay)

Release Date:

14 January 2000 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Tagline:

You know it's faith, when it's all you have left.

Plot:

Tom Canboro is a police detective with a Christian sister, Eileen, a brother, Calvin, a wife, Susan...

Plot Keywords:

Christian | Antichrist | Messiah | Hospital | 666

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Gary Busey	...	Tom Canboro
Howie Mandel	...	Jason Quincy
Nick Mancuso	...	Franco Macalousso
Margot Kidder	...	Eileen Canboro
Sherry Miller	...	Suzie Canboro
Joseph Ziegler	...	Calvin Canboro
Lawrence Bayne	...	Zack Probert
Wayne Best	...	Morgan
Costa Kamateros	...	Carl
Patrick Gallagher	...	Jake Goss
Leigh Lewis	...	Helen Hannah
Nichole Nordeman	...	Alison
Jack Van Impe	...	Himself
Rexella Van Impe	...	Herself
T.D. Jakes	...	Himself

Also Known As:

Apocalypse III: Tribulation (USA) (working title)
Daimones (Greece) (DVD title) [el]
V.R. - Virtual Reality (Germany) (TV title) [de]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for violence.

Runtime:

95 min

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Germany:12 | UK:12 | USA:PG-13

Filming Locations:

Stouffville, Ontario, Canada

Company:

Apocalypse Film Projects Inc.

Trivia:

According to Margot Kidder, she and Howie Mandel were unaware that this was a Christian film until well into filming. Kidder is an atheist and does not agree with the message this film presents.

Quotes:

Tom Canboro: Anybody who starts a sentence with "UFO," "extraterrestrial," "alien," or "Jesus Christ" -- I don't have to listen to the rest. Because I know what's coming.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Fat Girls (2006)

Soundtrack:

You're Able

A Good Movie About the Apocalypse

Detective Tom Canboro (Gary Busey) is a skeptical atheistic man, who is very close to his family. His sister Eileen (Matgot Kidder) and his wife Suzie (Sherry Miller) are Christians, his brother seems to be Christian and his brother-in-law Jason (Howie Mandel) is agnostic and quite crazy. One night, Tom is called to investigate two similar occurrences, both of them of domestic aggression and attempting to suicide, being one of them committed by Jason, who becomes totally insane. Tom realizes that something weird and unexplainable is happening, and he finds that the men of the leader Franco Macalousso (Nick Mancuso), who is indeed Lucifer, are threatening his family. Tom tries to go home to help his family, but a mysterious force controls his car and it crashes on a truck. Many years later, Tom awakes from his coma in a hospital and realizes that most of the worldwide population is now dominated by the Anti-Christ Franco Macalousso, who intends to destroy the Christians, and is marked with the number of the beast 666 on one hand. Tom tries to find what happened to his family and how to fight against Macalousso. "Tribulation" is a good movie about the Apocalypse. I noted in IMDb that it is the third part of a sequence of Christian films about the text of the Bible. The first one of this movies I saw was "Judgement", the fourth part of this series; now I have just watched the third part, which is much better than "Judgement". "Tribulation" is a good movie and the story can be understood without watching the first two parts. I liked the analogy made by Tom in the beginning of the movie, when he compares a person who speaks with aliens, with one who speaks with God. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "Forças Diabólicas" ("Evil Forces")