Calvary

Release Date: Friday, August 1, 2014 Limited

M. Emmet Walsh, Kelly Reilly, Brendan Gleeson, John Michael McDonagh, Domhnall Gleeson, Aidan Gillen, Chris O'Dowd, Dylan Moran

Set in Sligo, Ireland, Calvary is a blackly comic drama about a good priest tormented by various member of his community.

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Set in Sligo, Ireland, Calvary is a blackly comic drama about a good priest tormented by various member of his community.

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Plot
Father James (Brendan Gleeson) is a good priest who is faced with sinister and troubling circumstances brought about by a mysterious member of his parish. Although he continues to comfort his own fragile daughter (Kelly Reilly) and reach out to help members of his church with their various scurrilous moral - and often comic - problems, he feels sinister and troubling forces closing in, and begins to wonder if he will have the courage to face his own personal Calvary.
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The film's director John Michael McDonagh last directed The Forgiven and War on Everyone. The film's writer John Michael McDonagh last wrote The Forgiven and War on Everyone.

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R Restricted for sexual references, language, brief strong violence and some drug use
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Language
English

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The film was tagged as Completed. Fox Searchlight Pictures has acquired U.S. rights to the blackly comedic drama Calvary.

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Calvary was released in limited movie theaters on Friday, August 1, 2014 . There were 6 other movies released on the same date, including Guardians of the Galaxy, Get On Up and The Olivia Experiment. As a limited release, Calvary was shown in select movie theaters in major markets.



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  • Set the MPAA rating to R for sexual references, language, brief strong violence and some drug use

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