History YMMV / GuyanaTragedyTheStoryOfJimJones

* QuestionableCasting: Creator/NedBeatty turns in a good performance as UsefulNotes/LeoRyan, but doesn't resemble him in the slightest. Ironically, the real Ryan looked much more like Creator/GeneBarry, who played the NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed "Lee O'Brien" in the ExploitationFilm ''Film/GuyanaCrimeOfTheCentury''.

* OneSceneWonder: Creator/JamesEarlJones as Father Divine, a successful charismatic minister who Jones used as a role model.[[note]]One odd incident in Jones' life not covered in the movie is that after Divine's death, Jones made a bizarre claim that Divine's spirit entered his body, in an attempt to take over Divine's movement, but he only managed to skim off a tiny handful of Divine's followers.[[/note]] Despite this, [[BillingDisplacement he's prominently billed in the credits]].

* MoralEventHorizon: Jones only gets worse as time goes on, [[spoiler:but he crosses it altogether when he not only sends his goons out to kill UsefulNotes/LeoRyan and others accompanying him but also calls a meeting where every resident of Jonestown is to die by poisoning.]]\

* MoralEventHorizon: Jones only gets worse as time goes on, [[spoiler:but he crosses it altogether when he not only sends his goons out to kill UsefulNotes/LeoRyan and others accompanying him but also calls a meeting where every resident of Jonestown is to die by poisoning.]]

* WTHCastingAgency: Creator/NedBeatty turns in a good performance as UsefulNotes/LeoRyan, but doesn't resemble him in the slightest. Ironically, the real Ryan looked much more like Creator/GeneBarry, who played the NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed "Lee O'Brien" in the ExploitationFilm ''Film/GuyanaCrimeOfTheCentury''.

* RetroactiveRecognition: A fully-sighted [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Geordi LaForge]] is the OnlySaneMan in Jones' flock. (Plus, Madge Sinclair, the actress who played his mother, also played Geordi's mother, as well as playing the mother to Creator/LeVarBurton's character in the short film ''Almos' A Man'' and the TV movie ''One In A Million: The Ron [=LeFlore=] Story.'')

* MoralEventHorizon: Jones only gets worse as time goes on, [[spoiler:but he arguably crosses it altogether when he not only sends his goons out to kill UsefulNotes/LeoRyan and others accompanying him but also calls a meeting where every resident of Jonestown is to die by poisoning.]]

* RetroactiveRecognition: A fully-sighted [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Geordi LaForge]] is the OnlySaneMan in Jones' flock. (Plus, Madge Sinclair, the actress who played his mother, also played Geordi's mother, as well as playing the mother to LeVar Burton's character in the short film ''Almos' A Man'' and the TV movie ''One In A Million: The Ron LeFlore Story.'')

* RetroactiveRecognition: A fully-sighted [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Geordi LaForge]] is the OnlySaneMan in Jones' flock.

* MoralEventHorizon: Jones only gets worse as time goes on, [[spoiler:but he arguably crosses it altogether when he not only sends his goons out to kill Leo Ryan and others accompanying him but also calls a meeting where every resident of Jonestown is to die by poisoning.]]

* RetroactiveRecognition: A fully-sighted [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Geordi LaForge]] is among Jones' flock.