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The Good Catholic

  • 2017
  • PG-13
  • 1h 38min
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Danny Glover, John C. McGinley, Wrenn Schmidt, and Zachary Spicer in The Good Catholic (2017)
Daniel loved his job as a small town priest more than anything. Then he met Jane. God help him.
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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaDaniel loved his job as a small town priest more than anything. Then he met Jane. God help him.Daniel loved his job as a small town priest more than anything. Then he met Jane. God help him.Daniel loved his job as a small town priest more than anything. Then he met Jane. God help him.

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    • Zachary Spicer
    • Wrenn Schmidt
    • Danny Glover
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
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    991
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
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      • Paul Shoulberg
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Paul Shoulberg
    • Star
      • Zachary Spicer
      • Wrenn Schmidt
      • Danny Glover
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    Zachary Spicer
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    • Daniel
    Wrenn Schmidt
    Wrenn Schmidt
    • Jane
    Danny Glover
    Danny Glover
    • Victor
    John C. McGinley
    John C. McGinley
    • Ollie
    Chandra Lee Mann
    • Donna
    Henry Woronicz
    Henry Woronicz
    • Kent
    Peter Reilly
    • Doug
    Another Round
    • Church Choir
    Vickie Parker
    • Ruth
    Gini Shoulberg
    • Edith
    Steve 'Roc' Bonchek
    • Bingo Master
    Ken Ferrell
    • Ronnie
    Kate Braun
    Kate Braun
    • Ronnie's Wife
    Mary Carol Reardon
    • Funeral Widow
    Jon Kruse
    • Pizza Guy
    Alessandro Miro
    Alessandro Miro
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    Evan M. Dawson
    • Coffee Shop Patron
    Zane Naylor
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    6HotToastyRag

    Good acting, but Catholics might not like it

    Catholic viewers, beware. The Good Catholic is a quirky, indie flick that takes a definite viewpoint. There are three Catholic priests, Danny Glover, John C. McGinley, and the lead character Zachary Spicer. Each great friends, each at different stages in their lives, and each with a different relationship with God. Danny is the oldest; he's the sage who is the most solely devoted to God. John is "the fun one". He puts pizzazz into the choir, he loves watching football games, and he's constantly cracking jokes. But, in an emotional sermon, he educates his congregation on the true meaning of compassion: to suffer with. Even though he seems like the stereotypical "fun priest" who uses slang and listens to hip hop, he really does have a meaningful relationship with God. Zach is the problem. He's grieving the death of his father, and it's extremely clear that his grief overwhelms and distracts him. He feels pain and loss, and when a quirky, non-religious, disrespectful young woman (Wrenn Schmidt) comes into his confessional, he gets taken out of himself for a while. It's very simple, to an outside viewer.

    Wrenn is a pot-stirrer who intentionally bothers him and tries to disturb his life. At first, she tells him she's dying, and when she's secured his pity, she starts seeing him socially outside the confessional. Her behavior is highly inappropriate; everybody knows that a priest has taken a vow of chastity. She seems bound and determined to poke holes in his life and make him break that vow. She invites him into her apartment, she flirts with him ("Alright, you can take me home, but no funny business," she says before he's even offered to), and she actually informs him that they're dating. They're not dating! He's a Catholic priest - even a non-Catholic viewer can see how unacceptable her actions are.

    When Zach invites her to dinner with the other priests, Danny takes a very hard stance with her. I got the feeling that the audience was supposed to think he was rude, but I was completely on his side. She was horribly offensive to him, called him names, and walked out of the dinner. All he did was remind her of a priest's choices, duty, and lifestyle. How is that rude?

    All in all, I understood the message of the film, but I didn't agree with it. I'm not sure how Catholic viewers will feel about it (but I'm not going to give any spoilers). Those who don't really respect the church will probably really like it; they'll probably really like Wrenn's character.

    DLM Warning: If you suffer from vertigo or dizzy spells, like my mom does, this movie might not be your friend. There is quite a bit of handheld camerawork in this movie, and it will make you sick. In other words, "Don't Look, Mom!"
    7uqbarino

    Very good movie, but that "end"...

    A lot to think about, that's what this film gives you;there will be laughs,and also tense and sad moments;my friends and I had an interesting discussion after watching it, but most of all :no one liked the end ... frustrating ...you see, there's a lot of stories with 'open ends',and most of the times it works; as for this one, we all wanted to see EVERYTHING on the screen,without having to decipher anything at all.Wren Schmidt is lovely here;Glover:finest work ever;Mcginley, hilarious as usual but also moving(must see);Spicer was a revelation to us: very good acting.Don't miss this film!
    josephryan-39287

    Masterful Evocation of Youth

    THE GOOD CATHOLIC finds a decent young man trying to follow a path set out for him by his father, that of a Catholic priest. We can sense from the first scene his restlessness in the confines of this dogma-bound and tightly constricted role. He yearns for meaning in life and thought to satisfy that yearning in the priesthood but finds himself embracing phantoms until an edgy and clever young woman enters his life. She claims to be dying but touches him with her spark of individuality and suddenly he understands his life can be more than a period of long waiting for the end, more than fear of hell and hope of heaven. The movie evokes very powerfully the deep yearning of youth for a lifetime story of love and meaning, for experiencing something intense and alive before it's too late, the awful fear that youth has that it will never be young.
    6dansview

    Thoughtful but Lacking

    Movies reflect the values of the people who make them. Most of those people are Liberal or even Leftist. So you get thousands of movies per year with a Liberal or Leftist perspective. One of those perspectives is that religion sucks.

    Whenever I see Danny Glover listed in the cast of anything other than Lethal Weapon, I expect some kind of touchy-feely message.

    Yet I would not consider this film anti-Catholic. Our main character is very earnest in wanting to serve both God and his congregation. He just struggles with his faith, like many people.

    The three-man staff of the parish is meant to represent different potential versions of priests. One is old and conservative, one is old and a bit cynical and silly, but still committed, and one is young and confused.

    To their credit the film makers did not make the old conservative one out to be a bad guy. No one molests children or does immoral things.

    But what disturbed me was that the spoiled, cynical slacker-woman character is portrayed as the righteous one who teaches life lessons to the out-of-touch clergy. Yet her life is a mess. That part is typical Indie glorification of melancholia.

    While the dialog hinted at profundity, it never quite gets there. The Glover character does challenge the silly woman, but he is made out to look rude, while she's the hipster.

    Someone should have told the main young character to loosen up, instead of just implying it. Meanwhile someone should have told the woman that trendy self-pity and dishonesty are not becoming.

    The Midwest college town setting and slow pace are refreshing compared to the typical L.A., New York, Chicago, Miami redundancy. But pregnant pauses and focused shots of a contemplative face do not create depth. The dialog still has to do its job.
    3elliest_5

    As bland and basic as it could possibly get

    I grew up in a place and time when "The Thorn Birds" (1983 mini-series adaptation of a novel about a Catholic priest's forbidden love) was so hugely popular that, for at least a decade afterwards, references to and re-makes/adaptations of this premise kept popping up without losing the audience's attention. I mean, as far as "forbidden love" goes, this kind of premise is extremely advantageous: there's high stakes, there's tension, there's existential angst and crisis of faith, moral dilemmas and heartbreak...

    You'd think it almost can't go wrong

    But apparently it can, and it did in this film, which is SO bland and uninspired it's painful to watch.

    The young (uber-hunk) priest is struggling with grief and a general lack of faith, but only in words. He repeats "I'm struggling with grief and a general lack of faith" several times throughout the film, but he totally fails to convince, despite the tears, because there isn't a story to back this up.

    The woman (=love interest) character is totally random. She's apparently obsessed with death because life seems meaningless otherwise, but we don't find out anything about her that would turn her into a three-dimensional character. She's just quirky for the sake of being quirky. Everything she says (because this film is all about what people say, they don't really do much) amounts to "I'm so quirky, look at me, I'm so occasionally depressed and obsessed with death!"

    And then there's the two supporting priest characters whose role and (lack of) depth can also be summed up in one-liners: there's the "I'm proper and wise and old-fashioned" and the "I'm quirky and rebellious and clearly here for comic relief, while also demonstrating that faith isn't necessarily about following all the rules or taking yourself too seriously".

    Yeh so that's it. What I wrote above is the whole film. I swear there's absolutely nothing else in it. Every scene seems pointless because it just goes through the motions of its generic tag: "the crisis of faith scene", "the boy-meets-girl scene", "the break-up scene" oh and the should-have-been-powerful-but-ended-up-complete-nonsense "awkward dinner scene".

    Don't waste your time. If the premise appeals to you so much go watch The Thorn Birds.

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      [Father Ollie enters wearing an Indiana basketball jersey over his robe]

      Victor: Oh, now, come on, come on!

      Ollie: What, Father?

      Victor: Well, even the Franciscans had-had some rules about... THIS!

      Ollie: Let me check, Father.

      [opens the Bible and reads]

      Ollie: "And cometh game day, 'tis okay to go forth in the colors of thine chosen team unless thine chosen team is the Purdue Boilermakers or the Kentucky Wildcats." God is good. Tip off's in five minutes. I'm makin' my nachos.

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    • Data di uscita
      • 8 settembre 2017 (Stati Uniti)
    • Paese di origine
      • Stati Uniti
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