A homosexual Catholic priest finds out during confessional that a young girl is being sexually abused by her father, and has to decide how to deal with both that secret and his own.
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Linus Roache | ... | Father Greg Pilkington | |
| Tom Wilkinson | ... | Father Matthew Thomas | |
| Robert Carlyle | ... | Graham | |
| Cathy Tyson | ... | Maria Kerrigan | |
| Lesley Sharp | ... | Mrs. Unsworth | |
| Robert Pugh | ... | Mr. Unsworth | |
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James Ellis | ... | Father Ellerton |
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Christine Tremarco | ... | Lisa Unsworth |
| Paul Barber | ... | Charlie | |
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Rio Fanning | ... | Bishop |
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Jim R. Coleman | ... | Funeral director |
| Bill Dean | ... | Altar boy | |
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Gilly Coman | ... | Ellie Molloy |
| Fred Pearson | ... | Patrick | |
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Jimmy Gallagher | ... | Mick Molloy |
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Father Greg Pilkington (Linus Roache) is torn between his call as a conservative Catholic priest and his secret life as a homosexual with a gay lover, frowned upon by the Church. Upon hearing the confession of a young girl of her incestuous father, Greg enters an intensely emotional spiritual struggle deciding between choosing morals over religion and one life over another. Written by Eric Chor <spiritcircle@yahoo.com>
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church | catholic priest | homosexual | sexual repression | liverpool england |Taglines:
One man is about to challenge two thousand years of tradition. See more »Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
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UKLanguage:
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24 March 1995 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Gross USA:
$4,176,932Company Credits
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British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Miramax, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment See more »
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[Translation: Go fuck yourself, you dirty old man]
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Words & music by Burt Bacharach/Hal David
Copyright 1963 U.S. Songs Inc.
Copyright 1962 renewed New Hidden Valley Music
for Burt Bacharach/Casa David Music for Hal David
Administered in UK by Carlin Music Corporation
Performed by Dusty Springfield
Courtesy of Polygram Record Operation Ltd. and Warner Special Products
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The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights were so outraged by the film's subject and its release date over the Easter weekend that they called for all their members to boycott anything Disney-related. See more »Goofs
Father Greg holds up a communion wafer which is smooth. The scene cuts to Graham and then back to Father Greg, and the wafer has a diagonal line across it. See more »Quotes
Father Greg Pilkington: [addressing Father Redstone in Latin] Abi et futue te ipsum, sordide senex.[Translation: Go fuck yourself, you dirty old man]
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Alternate Versions
The US version has been cut by seven minutes. See more »Soundtracks
ANYONE WHO HAD A HEARTWords & music by Burt Bacharach/Hal David
Copyright 1963 U.S. Songs Inc.
Copyright 1962 renewed New Hidden Valley Music
for Burt Bacharach/Casa David Music for Hal David
Administered in UK by Carlin Music Corporation
Performed by Dusty Springfield
Courtesy of Polygram Record Operation Ltd. and Warner Special Products
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I just re-watched Priest after 12 years, and I think it is even more powerful and relevant now it was then, given the scandals in the Catholic Church and the rise of religious militancy and fundamentalism in the world.
While occasionally teetering on the brink of preachiness and soap opera, Priest is saved by tight direction and very fine acting. It effectively shows the humaness of people in the Church, as opposed to how some would have you believe.
As a person not all attached to organized religion, I obviously find much to approve of here. But the strength of Priest is that someone who loves the Catholic Church for what is really is, the teachings of Jesus, and not what cruel, irrational and ignorant human beings have made of it will find much to be enriched by here. Priest is not anti-Catholic at all, not in the true sense of the word. Rather, it is anti human folly.
Of course that segment that is fundamentalist and inflexible, who cannot imagine - horrors! - that a Priest could be gay have and will continue to express their moral outrage and call this "hate speech."
As a final note, I also happened to read Roger Ebert's inexplicible review of Priest. If I hadn't seen his name on it, I would think it was written by Michael Medved. Since Ebert is generally religion neutral and very gay positive, I simply don't understand his outrage at all - very puzzling indeed. And he gives Mel's hideous Passion of the Christ, one of the most immoral and disgusting movies ever made (again most especially if you ARE religious) a perfect 10.