TICKET TO HEAVEN no stars

It's not terrible but it's not good either. "Ticket to Heaven" came out at a time when 'cults' were the new 'Big Thing' or maybe just the next Big Thing, a scary alternative to Hippiedom. It's the story of David, (handsome, vacant Nick Mancuso), who is sucked into one such cult but is then 'kidnapped' by his friends and family and deprogrammed. It's heart is obviously in the right place but the treatment is mediocre. As an 'anti-cult' movie it's no better than the kind of propoganda a cult itself might produce on the cheap, poorly written, directed and acted and in hindsight it's hard to believe that people actually took it seriously. These cultists are more like the Brady Bunch pretending to be the Adams Family.