Saved by the Light (DVD) - 1995 Eric Roberts Based on the best-selling novel by Dannion Brinkley
Saved by the Light 1995 Color DVD Region One (Playable in North America: The US, Canada, Mexico, etc.) Starring: Eric Roberts, Lynette Walden, K Callan, Don Harvey, Ted Manson and Don McManus. Written by John Mandel. Based on the best-selling novel by Dannion Brinkley. Directed by Lewis Teague. The movie begins in Aiken, South Carolina in 1975. Dannion Brinkley (Eric Roberts) is a Vietnam vet who works as a deliveryman in his parent’s store. A young man with a dark side, he is unfaithful to his loving wife Casey (Lynette Walden) and bullies everyone else around him, even the residents of a retirement home. His mother (K Callan) expresses disgust with him after he beats up a poor man who shoplifted some items from their store. She tells him she thought she raised him with a heart and that his rage is like a terrible sickness. The angry young man's life takes a dramatic turn when he is struck by lightning while talking on the phone. Pronounced dead at the hospital, he miraculously revive