Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation Of Christ, adapted by Paul Schrader, from Nikos Kazantzakis's controversial 1955 novel, opens in 123 theatres to a chorus of condemnation and accusations of blasphemy from Christian religious groups across the country. The vitriol is leveled squarely at the film's dismissal of accepted Gospel narrative and replacing it with a postulate that has a decidedly un-Messiah-like Jesus saved from the cross and embracing the life of a mortal man by marrying Mary Magdelene and raising children. A provocative, polarising slice of theological revisionism illuminated by Willem Dafoe as Jesus, Harvey Keitel as Judas, Barbara Hershey as Mary and David Bowie as Pilate.