Roadside Attractions has released the full-length trailer for the historical drama A Great Awakening [AGAWK]. Set during pre-revolutionary America, the faith-based film chronicles the unlikely friendship between founding father Benjamin Franklin and the preacher George Whitefield, who was one of the founders of Methodism and the evangelical movement. A Great Awakening opens in theaters on April 3rd.
With the colonies on the brink of collapse, the Reverend George Whitefield sparks the first Great Awakening, uniting an entire generation with his thundering proclamation of liberty in Christ. In a miraculous turn of events, one of Whitefield’s closest friends and greatest promoters becomes none other than Benjamin Franklin. With the nation’s freedom hanging in the balance, Franklin discovers true liberty cannot only be written into law - it must be awakened in the hearts of the people.
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