Monday, June 23, 2003

Video review from The Movie Snob:

The Third Miracle. (C+) This movie is interesting for its level-headed look at Catholicism, without any sensationalism or demonizing. Ed Harris is Father Frank Shore, a priest in 1979 Chicago who is plagued with doubt. The source of his angst appears to be an episode some time before this movie begins when he investigated the life of a possible candidate for sainthood, a beloved local priest, and discovered some ugly facts that pretty much took him out of the running. Despite his doubts, Fr. Shore answers his bishop’s request to investigate another possible case, that of a pious immigrant woman who is supposedly responsible for a miraculous cure of a girl with terminal lupus. The bulk of movie follows Fr. Shore’s investigation of the miracle and research into the life of the deceased woman, Helen O’Regan. Along the way he finds himself tempted by the attentions of Helen’s hippie-ish daughter Roxane, played by Anne Heche, and he butts heads with the crusty German archbishop who comes to Chicago to act as the so-called “devil’s advocate” opposed to Helen’s cause. Not a great film, but not bad either.

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