FACT SHEET

Uncommon Media Kit

Facts of Interest About the Film

Uncommon is a film that will inspire you to live a life that is out of the ordinary! The setting of Uncommon is a public school where students face unexpected challenges to their faith and freedoms. The movie will educate students, teachers, and parents about the fact that students do NOT lose their free speech and freedom of religion when they enter the schoolhouse!

• The film stars Erik Estrada. Estrada is best known for his leading role in the television series ChiP’s. Estrada plays the role of a heroic high school janitor who volunteers to help the students salvage their drama and music programs.

• Estrada starred with Pat Boone in the first Christian film ever widely produced, The Cross and the Switchblade in 1970.

• Estrada will attend over 200 church screenings across America in order to show this film to help better educate church leaders, parents and teens on religious liberties in public education.

• The film features famed Christian musician and 2012 Dove Artist of the Year, Male Vocalist of the Year and Grammy Award Winner Jason Crabb.

• The lead teenage role was played by actor Ben Davies; from the Christian blockbuster film Courageous. Davies was just recently voted as one of the top-ten of Christian actors.

• The film stars Irma P. Hall who has appeared in numerous films and television shows since the 1970s. She is best known for playing matriarchal figures in the films A Family Thing, Soul Food and The Ladykillers.

• The film was created by Liberty Counsel; Liberty Counsel is an international nonprofit, litigation, education, and policy organization dedicated to advancing religious freedom, the sanctity of life, and the family since 1989, by providing pro bono assistance and representation on these and related topics.

• Thomas Road Baptist Church, Pastored by Jonathon Falwell in Lynchburg, Virginia was the host church for the film. 

• The subject matter relating to this film is timely, desirable and portrayed appropriately and suitably for teens and pre-teen age children.

• Special music was developed for the film including several hip-hop and Latino-style music compositions. Estrada states, “Uncommon will be a great tool to equip young people with the truth. It’s a movie that will make you laugh, cry, and get up and dance!”

• Uncommon will provide parent and youth video study curricula with powerful resources to help educate schools, families and communities on the subject of school prayer and religious liberties.

• The film used a total of 334 volunteers and was shot over a period of 30 days, and five months of post-production.

• The film Uncommon has been made into an actual theatrical production available for FREE to students to perform in their church, school or community center. Erik Estrada has agreed to be in attendance for the first 10 scheduled performances.