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Not to mention screenings at the U.S. Capitol and Donald Trump’s golf club, and hundreds of millions of TikTok users who have watched videos of one another opining about the global sex-trafficking crisis in living rooms and movie theater parking lots.
Everything about “Sound of Freedom” that certain critics hated — its dramatic oversimplification of child trafficking, its moralizing overtones — was spun into gold by the well-oiled, whole-wheat marketing machinery at Angel Studios, a sort of anti-Hollywood the brothers founded in the foothills of Mormon country.
Jeffrey Harmon did speak to The Washington Post for a profile in 2016, where he said he and his siblings — there are nine in total, with various combinations of brothers holding titles in the family’s constellation of companies — grew up poor in Idaho farm country, selling potatoes door-to-door.
By the 2010s, they were running Harmon Brothers LLC in Provo, Utah, a small city that houses Brigham Young University, the flagship school of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, to which the family belongs.
Angel wanted to help her develop and distribute a feature movie based on her short film “Pharma,” which follows a doctor’s fights to keep a drug designed to treat pregnancy nausea off the market in the 1960s because of its link to birth defects.
A spokesman for Polaris, an anti-trafficking group that Angel Studios repeatedly cites on its “How to Help Combat Child Trafficking” page, said the movie’s plot bears little resemblance to reality, where victims are often manipulated by abusers they know in ways that can’t be solved with heroic rescues or flashy stings.
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It is quite hilarious watching the elites attempt to manufacture outrage against Angel Studios as a whole because they made one movie that was against child trafficking.
Angel Studios’ content is popular because it’s at the very least not bad, which isn’t something we can say about most Hollywood blockbusters nowadays. Not to mention that they have the goodwill of Hollywood workers, having gained exemptions to resume work on projects such as the upcoming season of The Chosen.
