Ticket to Heaven(1981)

movie - first aired/released 1981-10-09 - 108 min - audience 6.8

Drama

Directed by Ralph L. Thomas

David is a young man seduced by a religious cult that uses starvation, exhaustion, and brainwashing to mold recruits into money hustling disciples of a messiah-like leader. Chronicles David's chilling transformation into a gaunt, mindless shadow of his former self...and his ultimate salvation when friends and family launch a plan to kidnap and deprogram him.