Herald rating: * *
Running time: 102 mins
Rental: Now
Review: Ewan McDonald
An old Brazilian priest has been given a lost gospel "told in the words of Jesus himself."
In the priest's church, a statue of the Virgin Mary begins to bleed. The Vatican sends its chief miracle-buster, Father Andrew (Gabriel Byrne), to investigate.
When the old priest dies, an American tourist buys his rosary in the market and posts it to her daughter, Frankie (Patricia Arquette), a hairdresser in Pittsburgh.
Soon Frankie is showing the stigmata — bleeding from the wrists, head and ankles where Christ was nailed to the cross. Father Andrew, you're needed.
He decides Frankie cannot have the stigmata because she is not a believer.
But she's freaking out at nightclubs and customers are objecting to having their hair done by a woman whose wrists are dripping.
Bled and whine all over the place, actually. This is a movie that needed a damn good exorcist. Father Merrin, you're needed.
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