Father Stu

2022 124 min ★ 7.1 Drama

The true-life story of boxer-turned-priest. When an injury ends his amateur boxing career, Stuart Long moves to Los Angeles to find money and fame. While scraping by as a supermarket clerk, he meets Carmen, a Sunday school teacher who seems immune to his bad-boy charm. Determined to win her over, the longtime agnostic starts going to church to impress her. However, a motorcycle accident leaves him wondering if he can use his second chance to help others, leading to the surprising realization that he's meant to be a Catholic priest.

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Cast

Mark Wahlberg

Father Stuart 'Stu' Long

Mel Gibson

Bill Long

Jacki Weaver

Kathleen Long

Teresa Ruiz

Carmen

Malcolm McDowell

Monsignor Kelly

Annet Mahendru

Mary

Cody Fern

Priest

Winter Ave Zoli

Allison

Faith Jefferies

Time Keeper

Ronnie Gene Blevins

Bartender

Details

Director

Rosalind Ross

Screenplay

Rosalind Ross

Tagline

"God wanted a fighter… and He found one."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$4,000,000

Revenue

$21,591,034

Production

Municipal Pictures, Palm Drive Productions

Reviews

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Spencer

May 15, 2022

★ 5/10

Let me start off by saying that I completely understand all of the hate this film is getting, and that's because for the first half of the film I hated it too. For too much of this film, a lot of the characters are just unlikable slobs . . . especially Mel Gibson's character of Bill Long. Also, the story plays out . . . well, it plays out terribly for the first half of the film. It wasn't until la...

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CinemaSerf

May 29, 2022

★ 6/10

Mark Wahlberg is competent here as the eponymous boxer who takes a shine to the young church-going Carmen (Teresa Ruiz). He can't get near her, so he somewhat opportunistically decides to join her church and see if that helps. Thing is, pretty quickly he discovers that there is something to this "God" thing, and decides to try and get himself ordained for the priesthood - leaving all thoughts of t...