Priest
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United Kingdom · 1995
Rated R · 1h 38m
Director Antonia Bird
Starring Linus Roache, Tom Wilkinson, Robert Carlyle, Cathy Tyson
Genre Drama, Romance
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Father Greg Pilkington is torn between his call as a conservative Catholic priest and his secret life as a homosexual with a gay lover, frowned upon by the Church. Upon hearing the confession of a young girl of her incestuous father, Greg enters an intensely emotional spiritual struggle deciding between choosing morals over religion and one life over another.
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