In the Bible, Saul persecuted Christ's church and its followers. Overcome parallels this story. Set in modern day, a young man in high school mistreats anyone good around him, until he has a fateful accident which changes his life. Now he must make amends to all those around him, and try to become the person he knew he should have been the whole time. That’s right: Overcome (Turn Around 2007) has a twin! All they had to do was change some of the evangelical themes to Mormon themes. But also for some bizarre reason, they changed all the names of the cast members, even though they are the same people. Apparently they thought that by changing the names, you would never know this was the same movie.
Production
The audacity of releasing the same film twice with different prayers.
Director
B.J. Alexander
Jaci Twiss
Sara Taylor (Jaycee Lynn)
Jordon Sorenson
Colton Pratt (Aaron U. Brown)
Caitlin E.J. Meyer
Ashley Pratt (Elizabeth Joelle)
Shea Potter
Dallen (Samuel Potts)
Matthew Reese
Coach Miller (Mathew Davis)
Falisha Fehoko
Liz (Liosi Fehoko)
Jace Rowley
John (Ron Joost)
Jason Osmond
Blake (Frank Killerton)
Dayne Rockwood
Eddie (Daniel Roberts)
Michael Groscost
Mr. Pratt (Michael James)
Rosanna Ungerman
Mrs. Pratt (Stormee Bird)
Carolyn Crow Koskan
Jennifer Taylor (Elizabeth Crow)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 2007 version 'Turn Around' was produced for evangelical audiences; 'Overcome' simply swapped scripture references and Mormon terminology while keeping every shot identical. Same cast, same sets, same tennis meltdown.
This represents peak 'niche faith film' economics—why make one movie when you can sell the same one twice to non-overlapping religious markets? The name changes (Jaci Twiss → Jaycee Lynn) suggest they genuinely believed audiences wouldn't notice.
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