The Patron Saint of Liars (1998) (TV)

User Rating:

6.0/10   

Director:

Stephen Gyllenhaal

Writers (WGA):

Ann Patchett (novel)
Lynn Roth (teleplay)

Release Date:

5 April 1998 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

A woman runs away from her husband when she discovers she is pregnant, going to a Catholic school for girls...

Plot Keywords:

Based On Novel

Cast

Dana Delany	...	Rose Cleardon Abbott
Sada Thompson	...	Sister Evangeline
Clancy Brown	...	Son
Jill Gascoine	...	Mother Corrine
Nancy Moore Atchison	...	Cecilia (age 15)
Debra Christofferson	...	Sister Bernadette
Lisa Rieffel	...	Beatrice
Marissa Ribisi	...	Angie
John Putch	...	Thomas Cleardon
Maggie Gyllenhaal	...	Lorraine Thomas
Mary-Joan Negro	...	Mrs. Stanton
Ellen Burstyn	...	June Clatterbuck
Anthony Mockus Sr.	...	Father O'Donnell
Brett Pryor	...	Joseph Clatterbuck
Daria Sanford	...	Ann Clatterbuck
Chrissy Mullins	...	Cecilia at 5 yrs.
Gene Johnson	...	Justice of the Peace
Michael Hula	...	Detective
Mary Rowland	...	Nurse
Lorri Lindberg	...	Mrs Sanderson
Barry Bell	...	Mr Sanderson
Junious L. Leak	...	Diner owner
Laurie Beasley	...	Young woman
John Bennes	...	Priest at Funeral
James K. Solari	...	Priest at communion (as Father James K. Solari)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Lonnie Burchfield	...	Featured Extra / Trucker
Elizabeth Carlton	...	Featured Extra
Donna-Maria Esposito	...	Nun
Jenna Young	...	Pregnant Teenager

Directed by
Stephen Gyllenhaal

Writing credits (WGA)
Ann Patchett		(novel)
Lynn Roth		(teleplay)

Produced by
Stephen Gyllenhaal	....	producer
Kenneth Kaufman	....	executive producer
Ann Kindberg	....	producer: CBS
Lynn Roth	....	executive producer
Ed Solorzano	....	producer

Original Music by
Daniel Licht

Cinematography by
Greg Gardiner

Film Editing by
Brent White

Casting by
Junie Lowry-Johnson
Ron Surma

Production Design by
William Strom

Art Direction by
C. Daniel Hall

Set Decoration by
Summer Eubanks		(decorator)

Makeup Department
Starr Jones	....	makeup department head
Stephen Kelley	....	key makeup artist

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Scott Printz	....	first assistant director
Daniel R. Suhart	....	second second assistant director

Art Department
Gillian V. Albinski	....	on-set dresser
Patrick O'Kelly	....	charge scenic

Sound Department
Tim Chilton	....	foley artist
Bob Costanza	....	sound effects editor
David C. Eichhorn	....	supervising sound editor
Tommy Goodwin	....	foley mixer
Steven R. Smith	....	sound

Stunts
Dean Mumford	....	stunts

Camera and Electrical Department
Eric Bartsch	....	key grip

Casting Department
Elizabeth Carlton	....	extras casting assistant
Phil Newsome	....	extras casting

Music Department
Larry Mah	....	scoring mixer

Other crew
Richard DiPatri	....	assistant production coordinator
Geoffrey Ryan	....	location manager

Production Companies

• Patchett Kaufman Entertainment

Distributors

• Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) (1998) (USA) (TV) (original airing)

Also Known As:

Miracle of the Spring (USA) (DVD title)

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Australia:PG | Germany:12

Filming Locations:

Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

Company:

Patchett Kaufman Entertainment

Slow moving, Far fetched........

Recently this movie was on Lifetime. It is about a woman who leaves her husband for no reason when she becomes pregnant. She goes into hiding to give up her child at a convent. The story gives no apparent reason for her running away until the very ending, which makes no sense. She then marries again, while still married to her first husband, to the grounds keeper, Clancy Brown. She decides to keep her baby and lives in a separate home from her husband and child at the convent. Years go by of the couple living apart and the child grows up thinking her mother doesn't love and care for her. Then after a mail incident, her first husband finds her and comes looking for his wife, which of course he is still in love with. Then the story finally unwinds and we find out why this woman runs from her family, which of course is very weak, and leaves the viewer full of questions that are never answered. I watched this whole story to find out the reasoning of a religious event that happens in the first 5 minutes of the movie with a sick child becoming well after a spring of water appears out of the ground, at the very end of the movie the spring appears again, when the lady who runs stops running, I don't see how the 2 relate to the story line that seemed to be full of holes, and how a woman can leave her child and have that child have peace suddenly at the end of the movie is a bit to far fetched for me! I would not waste my time with this movie. One of the worst I have seen.