Father Stu

[Opens April 13 in theaters.] Rosalind Ross' engaging, factually based, humor-dotted, well-acted, touching, biographical 124-minute film in which aging, stubborn, amateur boxer Stuart Long (Mark Wahlberg), whose parents (Mel Gibson and Jacki Weaver) are estranged, in Montana heads to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career, becomes smitten with a Mexican Catholic Sunday schoolteacher (Teresa Ruiz), and then after surviving a horrific motorcycle accident, decides to enter the priesthood despite rejection by a church official (Malcolm McDowell) and then being diagnosed with a terminal muscular disease.
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