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The Perfect Family (2011)
If you make a movie about Catholics, at least get it right.
This was an interesting movie, but I have to wonder how much the writer, producer, or director knows about current Catholic practice. There were a lot of details wrong. For one thing, no Catholic-sponsored organization would ever offer "lifetime-absolution" as a prize for a Woman of the Year Award--that kind of thinking in the Catholic Church went out with the Council of Trent. Absolution from sin is available to any Catholic through a sincere reception of the sacrament of Reconciliation--you don't have to win it as a prize. For another thing, no Catholic would say a blessing before eating with "Come Lord Jesus, be our guest, etc." It would always be "Bless us o Lord AND (not FOR) these thy gifts." And all Catholics are not of Irish descent--the archbishop of Dublin wouldn't be anyone special, other than maybe one more archbishop. Errors like these might seem trivial, but they seem to indicate that someone hasn't researched Catholicism very well, which, to me, diminishes their right to criticize it.