'Mean Girls' Lacey Chabert Stars in New Movie 'Christian Mingle', Watch Trailer Here (VIDEO)

'Mean Girls' Lacey Chabert Stars in New Movie 'Christian Mingle', Watch Trailer Here (VIDEO)

Mean Girls actress Lacey Chabert is starring in the upcoming movie Christian Mingle, and yes it is based on the dating website Christian Mingle that everyone has seen commercials about. They have released their first trailer, which you can check out above. 

Christian Mingle releases to theaters this weekend, October 10th. 

Lacey's character, Gwyneth Hayden, is single and lonely decides to join Christian Mingle and pretend to be a Christian while meeting a guy name Christian. She falls hard, but his mother is suspicious and feels that she is faking being a Christian. As she searches for love she ends up searching her soul for higher purpose as well. 

Director of Christian Mingle, Corbin Bernson spoke with Smashing Interviews, here is an except below. 

Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): How did Christian Mingle come about?

Corbin Bernsen: Well, along the way, my producing partner and I just felt like every movie had to be so over the top, "come to Jesus," type of film. We wondered why people just couldn't make good films that have some Christian values in them. Some larger movies do that certainly, but these smaller, independent films seem to be always "hit over the head come to Jesus your life will be fixed" things. Why couldn't we do romantic comedies and thrillers and other genres?

A romantic comedy was really intriguing to us especially since there's so much material, if you will, with young Christians getting together, getting married or finding the right guy for a girl. I happened to be at a Faith and Film Summit and met the guy who runs Christian Mingle. There's a huge brand of online dating, which I thought could be a nice world to get into and to explore a film in that area. We pitched a little story, and it grew starting two and a half years ago to the release coming up on October 10.

Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Some reviewers are already criticizing the film saying that it's a commercial for the dating site.

Corbin Bernsen: Right. I've got to get past some critics who've said some pretty horrible things who aren't Christians. They're making fun of it and all that. It is not a commercial. At its purest, and what has always interested me, is the real integration of a brand into a film that is both beneficial to the brand and beneficial to the film.

There are 14 million Christian Mingle users. That's a nice audience that might be interested in my film. Sure, on first blush, I suppose that's what it looks like, but I can only say so many times publicly without sounding like, "he doth protest too much," that it is not at all a commercial. Does it speak well for Christian Mingle? Sure. Absolutely. Is it for Christian Mingle specifically? No. It's a romantic comedy about a young girl looking for a guy who happens, along the way, to find God.

 

 

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