A public airing of dirty Catholic linen. Father Greg, a stiff-necked young priest filling an opening in squalid Liverpool, presumes to instruct his elder on their mutual congregation ("You expect less of the people because they live in a poor parish"), and presumes in addition to advise him to get rid of his nubile housekeeper and bedmate (Cathy Tyson of Mona Lisa). But Father Greg has troubles of his own: an irresistible impulse to seek out the nearest gay bar, and a crisis of conscience when a little girl tells him under the seal of the confessional that her father is molesting her. It's all fairly low-key (notwithstanding a venting of frustration to the crucifix on the wall: "Do something! Don't just hang there, you smug idle bastard!"), and yet all fairly salacious. The late-blooming camaraderie between the two differently flawed priests partly redeems it. With Linus Roache and Tom Wilkinson; directed by Antonia Bird. (1995) — Duncan Shepherd
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