Review of Ticket to Heaven

This movie is one of my favorites. It really works through characters to show convincingly how people get caught in cults and how they get out--and it does it with a sense of grim humor, as well as without preaching, which raises it above TV-movie level. Nick Mancuso gives the best performance he's ever done, unfortunately for him, as a drifting, musclebound hunk who can't commit. Saul Rubinek is engaging as his pal who rescues him (you've got to see his stand-up routine that he does at the camp where recruits are taken, quite chilling). And you won't believe Kim Katrall as Ruthie, the chipper Moonie with the heart of stone. The soundtrack is also a star in itself, and I wish it were on recording!