Fine Arts

We recommend most strongly that parents use extreme caution when getting their children involved in theatre.

With a very few exceptions, movies produced by LDS artists and aimed at LDS audiences are lacking in depth and refinement.  Many of the actors are no longer members of the church and are poor role models for our youth.

LDS movies we recommend:
    Saints at War
    The Other Side of Heaven
    The Best Two Years
    everything from Church Distribution

Other movies we recommend:
    Friendly Persuasion (a must-see)
    Born Yesterday (both the new and the old versions)

    "Chick Flicks"
        Emma
        Sense and Sensibility
        Pride and Prejudice (BBC version, not the LDS one)

We recommend a search on the Church website for:

Boyd K. Packer, “The Arts and the Spirit of the Lord,” Ensign, Aug. 1976, 60

We caution again, please be extremely careful about involving children in theatre.  Never allow them to attend a rehearsal without a parent.  For whatever reason, there is not a group of people anywhere with more charm and charisma and less moral integrity.  Parents also fall under this spell and seem willing to do almost anything to get their children into the limelight.

At the same time, the Lord must love theatre -- he uses it in his holy temples.  There is not a more powerful teaching media.  If theatre is your mission, it is a dangerous mission.  Tread carefully.  

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