Mark Ruffalo sure didn’t choose an easy subject for his directing debut — a wheelchair-bound deejay (Christopher Thornton, a disabled actor who wrote the part for himself) who suddenly discovers he has a gift for faith healing.
The movie gets off to a promising start as a Catholic priest played by Ruffalo puts our cynical hero to work performing miracles on LA’s skid row. But it quickly jumps the track when he’s hired to work with a band fronted by Orlando Bloom that plans to work his special talents into their act.
The faith healer, who has a 75 percent success rate, ends up on trial after he tries to help a bassist having an overdose. She’s played by a vivid Juliette Lewis, who seems to be acting in a different movie than everyone else in the interesting but never compelling “Sympathy for Delicious.”