Ragamuffin

2014 • 137 minutes

About this movie

'Ragamuffin' is based on the life of Rich Mullins, a musical prodigy who rose to Christian music fame and fortune only to walk away and live on a Navajo reservation. An artistic genius, raised on a tree farm in Indiana by a callous father, Rich wrestled all of his life with the brokenness and crippling insecurity born of his childhood. A lover of Jesus and a rebel in the church, Rich refused to let his struggles with his own darkness tear him away from a God he was determined to love. As he struggled with success in Nashville and depression in Wichita, Rich desired most of all to live a life of honest and reckless faith amidst a culture of religion and conformity.

Ratings and reviews

I have listened to Rich Mullins songs for years but never knew his story till I watched this movie. This is a awesome movie of his life story. So sad it ended so quickly. I believe he wanted to find true love. A love he never felt from his father. Not quit sure of how God could love such a Ragamuffin. This is a movie I think all should see. I know it really touched me and kept my attention through the whole movie.

A lot of so-called Believers in Christ won't understand this movie. Unless you become a true ragamuffin. This is the only way that belief in Christ is real. Too many people hide behind masks in church and it is so exhausting! People need to be real, so that what Christ said will come to pass in our lives: I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one—as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me-John 17:21

The transparency of this story is so wonderfully refreshing. Rich Mullins was a wonderful worship leader and real person dealing with real issues. I love how this movie shows that not in a condemning or glorifying way, but as a true reflection of what many Christian lives look like. Imperfect people serving and being loved by a perfect God.