What Would Jesus Buy?
Mar 11, 2007 | IMDB 5.9
91 min Watch NowDocumentary
A serious docu-comedy about the commercialization of Christmas. What Would Jesus Buy? follows Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir as they go on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse: the end of mankind from consumerism, over-consumption and the fires of eternal debt!
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IMDB 7.6 | Jan , 2012
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IMDB 7.5 | Nov , 2008
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IMDB 6.5 | Nov , 2003
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IMDB 7.2 | Jun , 2004
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IMDB 7.2 | Aug , 2024
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IMDB 7.5 | Nov , 2010
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IMDB 6.2 | Aug , 2011
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IMDB 6.6 | Nov , 2024
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IMDB 7.4 | Jan , 2020
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IMDB 7.3 | Mar , 2019
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IMDB 0 | Feb , 2025
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IMDB 5 | Jun , 1993
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IMDB 2 | Sep , 2022
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IMDB 6 | Sep , 2021
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