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Audiences rate it 51 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
Father Michael McKinnon goes from the UK to Boston circa 1935. For unknown reasons, he avoids at all costs the most prominent parishioners, Arthur and Eleanor Barret. Meanwhile Eleanor and Arthur desperately want to have a child, but Arthur is sterile, so they hire Harvard law student Roger Martin to impregnate Eleanor, but unfortunately Roger falls in love with her.
Ratings
IMDb6.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes11%
Audiences rate it 51 points higher than critics do.
42 audience votes
Key crew
- Lesli Linka GlatterDirector
- Rick RamageWriter
- Stephen EndelmanOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Madeleine StoweEleanor Barret
- Kenneth BranaghFather Michael McKinnon
- William HurtArthur Barret
- Robert LoggiaHannibal Thurman
- Blythe DannerSyril Danning
- Ken CheesemanWayne Fenton
- Dee NelsonSusan Vicar
- Pamela HartSkip Taylor
- Neil Patrick HarrisRoger Martin
- Josef SommerDryer
- Dossy PeabodyHannibal's Secretary
- Wendy FeignMaid
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Themes
parishsterilitypriestmiscarriagewoman director