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The Song (2014) is about a modern-day, country rocker King Solomon. Jed’s (Alan Powell) father had an affair with a woman named Bethany (based on King David’s second wife, Bathsheba), whom he later married. They had Jed, who grew up into a strapping young man, and then Jed’s dad died. All this backstory is dealt with in the movie’s first six minutes and plays like the recap of a film nobody made. Jed meets, falls in love with, and marries Rose (Ali Faulkner), and they have a son, Ray (Jude Ramsay). Jed decides to build a chapel for no apparent reason other than that Solomon built the First…
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