Sound of Hope: Angel Studios’ Fight for Kids Continues
Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot opened in theaters on July 4, 2024, exactly one year after the box office hit Sound of Freedom was released. While not nearly as popular, only bringing in $11,511,214 compared to Sound of Freedom’s $250,570,396, Sound of Hope is no less powerful.
The film traces the incredible journey of Donna and her husband, Reverend Martin, of Possum Trot, a small rural town in Texas. After Donna Martin’s mother dies, she faces the devasting grief that only the loss of a parent can bring. Donna is at her lowest when she hears the voice of God calling her to turn her grief into strength. With the help of social worker Susan Ramsey, the Martins and 22 other families in their rural church took in 77 of the hardest-to-place kids from the foster care system and ignited a nation-wide movement to fight for the most vulnerable in American society.
A story about foster-children could easily be used as a political megaphone instead of a spotlight for America’s most vulnerable, but not Sound of Hope.
As in the title, the film shines a ray of hope in a dark world. It doesn’t portray the reality of foster care or adoption through rose-colored glasses. It isn’t glamorous, cheap, or easy for the parents or the children. It isn’t an action movie of good versus evil, but a struggle of ordinary superheroes to help children not just survive, but thrive in a world where the odds are stacked against them. It’s a struggle that they emerge victorious over because good people came together under God in their community to love another as he has loved us.
The movie dealt with heavy themes of murder, abuse, and sexual assault. The children, unable to handle the horrors they had been subjected to by their own parents, often exhibited similar behavior, such as seeking out sexual relationships or acting violently toward themselves or others. Sound of Hope, most importantly, made it clear to the viewer that the child’s trauma and their coping mechanisms were never their fault.
Donna and Reverend Martin and their community never condemned the children for what they did. They loved them as they were and helped them heal in a home where they knew they were just as deserving of love as anyone else. The film is a breath of fresh air in a world that loves to condemn one another for something we’ve done, or has been done to us. Possum Trot shows a story of how love, really, is all we need.
Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot is well worth a watch. With Black Panther’s Letitia Wright as an executive producer, Euphoria’s Nika King as Donna Martin, Demitrious Grosse as Reverend Martin, and Lost’s Elisabeth Mitchell as Susan Ramsey, Sound of Hope received exceptional and well-deserved ratings. It achieved an 83 percent on the Tomatometer and a 98 percent audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. It also earned an A+ on CinemaScore.
Not only is Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot a heartwarming and uplifting movie, it’s also a call to action. 400,000 children live in the foster care system and 100,000 are waiting to be adopted.
There are about 400,000 churches in the United States. If one little church in Possum Trot could do so much, what could all of the churches in the U.S. do together?
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