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Writer:
Brad Mirman (written by)
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Tagline:
The truth will test his faith to the limit.
Plot:
CHRISTIAN SLATER plays a worldly and urbane priest who is forced to challenge his comfortable existence... more | add synopsis
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2 nominations more
User Comments:
'B' stands for boring. more (10 total)

Cast

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Christian Slater ... Daniel Clemens

Molly Parker ... Madeline Finney

Stephen Rea ... McCaran
Gordon Pinsent ... Cardinal Ledesna
Nancy Beatty ... Lucy Gallagher
Von Flores ... Father Andrews
Daniel Kash ... Jeffrey Altman
Alex Paxton ... Monica (as Alex Paxton-Beesley)
Jordan Hughes ... Cameron
Roman Podhora ... Detective Sherman
Shawn Lawrence ... Bishop Sorano
Colin Glazer ... Monsignor Hummel
Joan Gregson ... Mrs. Donelly
Kyra Harper ... Mrs. Andrews

Duane Murray ... James
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Le bon pasteur (Canada: French title)
The Confessor (USA) (DVD title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for some violence, thematic elements and brief drug content.
Runtime:
Argentina:90 min | Canada:91 min
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16 out of 28 people found the following comment useful.
'B' stands for boring., 2 November 2005
4/10
Author: Elden Aresson (elden@hot.ee) from Estonia

The story is shortly about the faith-lacking business man priest, Daniel Clemens (Christian Slater), who is looking closer on a case where another priest is suspected for murder. The priest denies he's guilty but at the same time he is not able to discuss the matter due to confidentiality. Enter Daniel Clemens who starts playing cop...

While the plot isn't ridiculous, everything else is. Let's start with the visual side, the cinematography is dull, it looks more like a TV-series than a movie. The camera angles are boring, in fact, there's not a single memorable camera angle in the entire movie. There's no interesting closeups revealing details. And the scene transitions, well, there's not much to say about those, they aren't smooth at all, there seems to be no connection between the scenes than the actual plot. Okay, they did use a transition with music in between two scenes, but there are no interesting visual transitions in the entire movie, the times dissolve was used there was no visual connection between the scenes.

The boring visual part could be forgiven if the film would offer anything else. Unfortunately the film only offers forced wooden acting and clumsy dialogue with no punch. On top of that the film suffers from audio problems, the sound volume is lowered several times in the movie as if the microphones would be too far.

I didn't predict the solution of the film. It could be because the film never gave me the opportunity or it could be due to the presentation, which was so boring I never even tried to figure it out.

Put two plus two together and it equals a B-movie where 'B' stands for boring.

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