Yes, God, Yes

Yes, God, Yes is a 2019 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Karen Maine and starring Natalia Dyer. It is Maine’s directorial debut, based on her 2017 short film of the same name. The movie is set in the fall of 2000. Alice is a sexually inexperienced but curious junior at a strict Midwestern co-ed Catholic high school.

About Yes, God, Yes in brief

Summary Yes, God, YesYes, God, Yes is a 2019 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Karen Maine and starring Natalia Dyer. It is Maine’s directorial debut, based on her 2017 short film of the same name. The film premiered at the SXSW Film Festival on March 8, 2019. It was released in selected drive-in theaters and virtual cinemas on July 24, 2020, before launching digitally and on video on demand on July 28, 2020. Netflix added the movie on October 22, 2020; it will be available on Blu-ray and DVD in the U.S. and on Netflix in the UK in the summer of 2020.

The movie is set in the fall of 2000. Alice is a sexually inexperienced but curious junior at a strict Midwestern co-ed Catholic high school. Father Murphy instructs her Morality class that any sexual activity not aimed toward procreation within a heterosexual marriage is a sin, with eternal damnation as punishment. She struggles with accepting her burgeoning feelings of sexual desire after both Father Murphy and her best friend, Laura, cause her to feel ashamed of them. Alice and Laura both decide to attend the school’s next \”Kirkos\” retreat.