The wife of a young married couple is having qualms of conscience over her job as a public defender, doing her job to the best of her ability even if it means the guilty walk free. Instead, she wants to pursue her dream of opening a Bed and Breakfast but her husband is concerned about finances and wants to wait. This is when things take a turn with unseen forces stepping in. When the wife is in peril, a Faustian bargain is struck between the devil and the husband to save her. What is never addressed is that Lou, the devil, caused the wife's peril. In the meantime God, Jovi, and Lou vy for control. But this God does not feel very God-like in my book. The actors are quite good which is engaging, the cinematography is well done and there's a good use of locations.

I will admit, I've always been a sucker for a kind of Faustian bargain. The immortals in this story, Jovi (God) and Lou (Satan) make their big, macro moves... while we little humans, just like the characters in this story, try to figure out how to move between the two deified poles. Sure, we all think we want to move towards the "good." But as this movie beautifully illustrates, life -- and stories -- are always more interesting when there's pull from both the good and the bad sides of life. The film "Jovi & Lou" has that push-pull tension, which creates some of the drama. But just to be clear, this movie is a lot of fun, too. Funny and fun! I was with the story from start to finish. I won't give away what happens, but if you check this movie out you're in for an interesting and entertaining ride!

I've been watching indies for a long time, and this film blew the doors off 99% of them in terms of unpredictability, which these days only indies seem to achieve. There are scenes that the only reaction can be is..."whaaaaaaa???" When Jesus made his first appearance as a very flamboyant, very gay, black man on skates and wearing daisy dukes with a metallic top, it became clear that the film makers have IDEAS. Then add Satan as a skeevy dude-bro, and The Supreme Being as a snarky, busty snark mistress, and you have a film that kinda exists outside most boxes. Like most indies, the acting goes from sublime to not-so-much, and there are the sound EFX and canned music that immediately shout "low budget", but don't let that stop you from checking this one out. The director and the writer have a quirky perspective that comes though on screen, and gotta say, I appreciated how those unique voices were shown visually. Disclaimer: I watched this film after a little bit of innocent imbibing, and I'm glad I did. It made the absurdity of the proceedings even more interesting!