7.9
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Still Hope (2026)
Still Hope (2026)
Overview
Faith-based drama directed by Richie Johns follows 16-year-old Hope (Luna Rivera), abducted from her community and forced into sex trafficking, as she navigates survival and healing. Co-starring Alex Veadov and John D. Michaels. Based on a true story.
Starring Cast
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Political: Leans Right
Diversity: Moderate
Family Values: Strongly Traditional
Christianity: Positive
Viewer Rating
7.9
Overview
Faith-based drama directed by Richie Johns follows 16-year-old Hope (Luna Rivera), abducted from her community and forced into sex trafficking, as she navigates survival and healing. Co-starring Alex Veadov and John D. Michaels. Based on a true story.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
The film's solution to human trafficking trauma relies on faith, familial support, and personal forgiveness, aligning dominant themes with conservative values of tradition and individual resilience rather than broader social critiques.
Visible ethnic diversity appears in the cast through the Latina lead and supporting actors of varied backgrounds. The narrative emphasizes faith-driven recovery from trafficking without critiquing traditional identities or centering DEI themes.
Secondary
Family emerges as the resilient core of redemption, interwoven with Christian rites of forgiveness and communal prayer that affirm parental vigilance and intergenerational ties against violation's rupture.
The film depicts Christianity as essential to the protagonist's recovery from sex trafficking trauma, highlighting faith in Jesus as a pathway to forgiveness and long-term healing. Family prayers and spiritual guidance underscore the religion's role in restoring dignity and hope. This portrayal aligns the narrative with Christian virtues of compassion and redemption.
The film contains no LGBTQ+ characters or themes, focusing instead on human trafficking and spiritual healing.
The film contains no depiction of transsexual characters or themes. The narrative centers on a cisgender protagonist's experience with sex trafficking and recovery through faith, emphasizing hope and healing without addressing transgender identity.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Still Hope features original fictional characters in a story inspired by true events of human trafficking, with no alterations to canonical or historical genders for any named roles.
Still Hope portrays fictionalized characters inspired by composite true stories of sex trafficking survivors, lacking canonical or historical racial depictions from source material, so no race swaps occur.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.7
8.0
Critic Ratings
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