There are many moments in The Overnighters, an astonishing documentary set amid the North Dakota oil boom that opens Friday at New York’s IFC Center and later this fall in cities nationwide, where the truth seems almost unbearable.
In one such scene, the Rev. Jay Reinke is shown ministering to a desperate Arizona man named Todd, a visitor with a history of drug abuse, alcoholism and aggravated assault—and looks it. He has turned up on Reinke’s doorstep in the 21st century boomtown of Williston.
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