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Dogma (1999) -- An abortion clinic worker with a special heritage is called upon to save the existence of humanity from being negated by two renegade angels trying to exploit a loophole and re-enter Heaven.

Overview

User Rating:
7.3/10   91,494 votes
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Director:
Kevin Smith
Writer (WGA):
Kevin Smith (written by)
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Release Date:
12 November 1999 (USA) more
Tagline:
Get 'touched' by an angel. more
Plot:
An abortion clinic worker with a special heritage is called upon to save the existence of humanity from being negated by two renegade angels trying to exploit a loophole and re-enter Heaven. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
6 nominations more
User Comments:
Chesterton lives! more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Bud Cort ... John Doe Jersey

Barret Hackney ... Stygian Triplet (as Barrett Hackney)
Jared Pfennigwerth ... Stygian Triplet
Kitao Sakurai ... Stygian Triplet

George Carlin ... Cardinal Glick

Brian O'Halloran ... Reporter (as Brian Christopher O'Halloran)

Betty Aberlin ... Nun

Matt Damon ... Loki

Ben Affleck ... Bartleby
Dan Etheridge ... Priest @ St. Stephen's

Linda Fiorentino ... Bethany
Derek Milosavljevic ... Kissing Couple
Lesley Braden ... Kissing Couple
Marie Elena O'Brien ... Clinic Girl (scenes deleted) (as MarieElena O'Brien)

Janeane Garofalo ... Liz
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Bearclaw (USA) (fake working title)
God (USA) (working title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for strong language including sex-related dialogue, violence, crude humor and some drug content.
Runtime:
130 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

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Trivia:
Rufus tells Bethany something no one else knew, about a boy named Bryan Johnson. Bryan Johnson is a friend of Kevin Smith's and appears in most of his films. Johnson is a writer/director who directed the first film from View Askew (Smith's production company) not to be directed by Kevin Smith - Vulgar (2000). more
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Crew or equipment visible: When Bartleby is holding Serendipity by the throat the metallic object that holds his wings in place is revealed. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Announcer: Ladies and Gentlemen, the driving force behind Catholicism WOW, Cardinal Glick.
Cardinal Glick: Thank you, thank you, thank you. Now we all know how the majority and the media in this country view the Catholic church. They think of us as a passe, archaic institution. People find the Bible obtuse... even hokey. Now in an effort to disprove all that the church has appointed this year as a time of renewal...
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Movie Connections:
Spoofs The Karate Kid (1984) more
Soundtrack:
Love Is Strange more

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What are the references to Kevin Smith's other films?
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47 out of 70 people found the following comment useful:-
Chesterton lives!, 15 June 2000
9/10
Author: zahasj from Berkeley, CA

Another vote from a cradle Catholic who was not remotely offended by this movie. Not that some of the negatives mentioned by other posters here aren't true -- yes, a lot of the humor is gross, yes, the F-word is overused, yes, its criticism of organized religion is less stinging that you'd expect (though that in itself is a slightly foolish expectation, given that the writer/director is himself an active member of an organized religion). And yes, if you're not Catholic, much of the movie is a little foggy, under-explained, and not very engaging. That last one I definitely agree with; I seriously doubt whether I'd recommend the film to a non-Catholic at all.

But, oh, God, I LOVED it, serious flaws and all! It's a huge chaotic mess with about sixty different trains of thought and philosophy, from the ecstatic to the scatological, slugging it out for dominance, and in its very sloppiness there's a sense of anarchic, exultant wonder I've never seen in a movie before. The only two things like it that I can think of are Thornton Wilder's play "Skin of Our Teeth" and G.K. Chesterton's amazing joyous fever dream of a novel "The Man Who Was Thursday", both of which are works by people who may or may not have faith but who definitely have a good idea. Or several dozen of them, and who just run with them wherever they go. These works are big chaotic messes, but in that way they are mirrors of Creation, the mother of all big chaotic messes. In all these works, just as in the real world, love and joy and beauty and filth and cruelty and despair are constantly tumbling over and bleeding into each other; the one universal rule is that everything is absurd, that the human race is the most absurd thing of all, and that this absurdity can be the catalyst to either suffocating grief or a kind of hilarious wonder.

If you go into "Dogma" expecting a trim and tidy theological comedy of manners, you'll be sorely disappointed. If you're looking for something with the same filthy gorgeous lunacy of existence itself, this is it.

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