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On November 29, 1982, the film was banned from showing in the Republic of Ireland; the Irish Film Censor Board cited its conflation of religion and adultery, as it features an affair between a priest and a postulant nun.
MONSIGNOR is the most cynical movie ever made about organized religion. I include in that statement the anticlerical broadsides by Luis Bu–uel, who attacked.
A definite candidate for the worst film of the eighties, never mind in 1982. There are some quality people involved in this piece of shit and there is no way it should be this bad. It breaks my heart to see Christopher Reeve, who I feel was under rated as an actor, wasting his time in a film like this.
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- Frank Yablans Presentations, 20th Century Fox
- Frank Perry
Monsignor: Directed by Frank Perry. With Christopher Reeve, Geneviève Bujold, Fernando Rey, Jason Miller. An ambitious priest seduces a nun and leads the Vatican into shady business during and after World War II.
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- Crime, Drama, War
- Frank Perry
- 1982-10-22
Someone on a game show once named this as his favorite bad movie, citing that hilarious scene in the church when Genevieve Bujold, playing a tramp postulant, realizes that her boyfriend is a priest. There's nothing good to be said about this film except that it has glorious scenery.
Oct 22, 1982 · Father Flaherty, this sacrilegious story's main character, is a monumentally crooked priest, and the Church appears to condone his every trespass. A few sticklers object to his black-marketing ...
Sep 10, 2012 · A movie seemingly predicated on the naive belief that audiences will be surprised that priests sleep with nuns, kill people (or Germans in World War II, at leas.
