Saving Grace

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Nov 27 Forget war films, forget the latest Catholic Saint movie, forget the Hallmark Channel. Tastefully done, even a gaggle of nuns will enjoy. 1986 movie with a prophecy hidden within. Let me know if you got it. See more Paul M Sep 21 Great movie!! Just what the doctor ordered for my troubled mind and heart! Lucky to have by chance clicked on i)tge station showing it See more Kate S May 6 The late Pope Francis always reminded me of Pope Leo in this film. The same kindness and faith that any pope should have. Tom Conti is brilliant in this role and I think a lot of people would find this warm and thought provoking. See more Thea D 02/19/2024 A movie about faith and love and the struggle we have to determine if our expectations are from outside or inside of us. Tom Conti is a wonderful actor and I was happy to rediscover him and newly discover this movie on streaming. We need more mainstream movies like this in which the human experience is explored in such thoughtful ways. See more Norbert D 05/11/2023 I adored this lesser known film, the story of young Pope Leo (Tom Conti), who serendipitously ends up out in the streets by the Vatican and eventually to a dispirited little hill town that survives by scamming the Italian government through the pretense of being afflicted by a local epidemic. He collaborates with a young thief and a hermit, masterfully played by the great Giancarlo Giannini, to try to rally the spirit of the place by rebuilding a decrepit aqueduct. Meanwhile, back in the Vatican, several cardinals hilariously collaborate to hide the fact that the pope has vanished. This is a wonderful tale of how a desperate community can be restored with the right spark plugs. I have to tell you my favourite scene which actually occurs before Leo "escapes": He is holding a session with a triumphant South American soccer team and a politician from the cabal that runs the country asks/demands that the Pope stop radical priests from their efforts at democratization. The politician menacingly says that ion this doesn't stop "We can't be responsible for what happens to them." In a kindly voice, Pope Leo replies, "Ah, but we are all responsible for each other." Just one lovely moment in a film that did not get the good reviews and positive attention it deserved. See more 05/02/2021 It's funny how faith and hope can kick you in the behind. Based on the book by Celia Gittelson and directed by Robert M. Young. This stars Tom Conti as the newly elected Pape Leo XIV as a newly elected pope. But one day he gets locked outside of the Vatican. He's now stuck in civilian clothes living like the common folk. The thing is Leo feels he's lost touch with the people and it might be gods plan he's outside his holy home. He then learns about friendship and self-esteem. He builds a strong bond with a girl named Isabella who's deaf with her mother. In this village of Monte Petra Leo finds out about an epidemic taking place and how mistreated the citizens are. He begins to discover perhaps his holy influence hasn't reached everywhere its needed most. No one knows what a pope's job actually is, they only think it's to interfere and to rule, no one knows what happens outside unless they're in the middle of it, even a holy man can have an adventure he doesn't count on This is less of a comedy but more of a spiritual journey with someone opening their eyes and their heart to the land they oversee spreading their influence. It's very long but gives a new perspective of how to properly connect to a flock that's lost faith in everything else. See more Read all reviews

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