The true-life story of boxer-turned-priest. When an injury ends his amateur boxing career, Stuart Long moves to Los Angeles to find money and fame. While scraping by as a supermarket clerk, he meets Carmen, a Sunday school teacher who seems immune to his bad-boy charm. Determined to win her over, the longtime agnostic starts going to church to impress her. However, a motorcycle accident leaves him wondering if he can use his second chance to help others, leading to the surprising realization that he's meant to be a Catholic priest.
04-13-2022
2h 4m
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Main Cast
Movie Details
Production Info
Director:
Rosalind Ross
Production:
Municipal Pictures, Palm Drive Productions
Revenue:
$21,591,034
Budget:
$4,000,000
Key Crew
Executive Producer:
Colleen Camp
Producer:
Mark Wahlberg
Producer:
Stephen Levinson
Producer:
Jordan Foss
Executive Producer:
Miky Lee
Locations and Languages
Country:
US
Filming:
US
Languages:
en
Main Cast
Mark Wahlberg
Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg (born June 5, 1971), formerly known by his stage name Marky Mark, is an American actor and former rapper. His work as a leading man spans the comedy, drama, and action genres. He has received multiple accolades, including a BAFTA Award, and nominations for two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and nine Primetime Emmy Awards.
Wahlberg was born in Boston. As a youth, he took part in a number of violent and racially motivated attacks. He gained fame as a member of the hip hop group Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch in the 1990s, with whom he released the albums Music for the People (1991) and You Gotta Believe (1992). Wahlberg made his screen debut in Renaissance Man (1994) and had his first starring role in Fear (1996). He received critical praise for his performance as porn actor Dirk Diggler in Boogie Nights (1997).
In the early 2000s, Wahlberg ventured into big-budget action movies, such as The Perfect Storm (2000), Planet of the Apes (2001), and The Italian Job (2003). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing a police officer in the crime drama The Departed (2006). Wahlberg was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for portraying Micky Ward in the sports drama biopic The Fighter (2010); as co-producer, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. During the 2010s, he landed successful comedy roles with The Other Guys (2010), Ted (2012), Ted 2 (2015), Daddy's Home (2015), and Daddy's Home 2 (2017). Wahlberg also starred in the Transformers franchise films Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) and Transformers: The Last Knight (2017). He was the world's highest-paid actor in 2017.
Wahlberg served as executive producer of five HBO series: the comedy-drama Entourage (2004–2011), the period crime drama Boardwalk Empire (2010–2014), the comedy-dramas How to Make It in America (2010–2011) and Ballers (2015–2019), and the documentary McMillions (2020). He is co-owner of the Wahlburgers chain and co-starred in the reality TV series about it. Wahlberg received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010.
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Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson (born January 3, 1956) is an actor, film director, producer and screenwriter. Born in Peekskill, New York, Gibson moved with his parents to Sydney, Australia when he was 12 years old and later studied acting at the Australian National Institute of Dramatic Art. After appearing in the "Mad Max" and "Lethal Weapon" series, Gibson went on to direct and star in the Academy Award-winning "Braveheart" (1995). In 2004, he directed and produced "The Passion of the Christ," a controversial yet successful film portraying the last hours in the life of Jesus Christ.
Jacqueline Ruth Weaver AO (born May 25, 1947) is an Australian actress. Weaver emerged in the 1970s as a symbol of the Australian New Wave through her work in Ozploitation films such as Stork (1971), Alvin Purple (1973), and Petersen (1974). She later she starred in Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Caddie (1976), Squizzy Taylor (1982), and well as number of made-for-television movies, miniseries, and Australian productions of some of the most revered plays including Death of a Salesman and Streetcar Named Desire.
In 2010, Weaver has garnered critical acclaim and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination and won National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as the matriarch of a criminal family in the crime film Animal Kingdom. She received another Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination for performance in the romantic comedy-drama film Silver Linings Playbook (2012). The following years, Weaver appeared in films The Five-Year Engagement (2012), Parkland (2013), Magic in the Moonlight (2014), The Disaster Artist (2017), Bird Box (2018), Widows (2018), Poms (2019), Stage Mother (2020), and Father Stu (2022).
On television, Weaver starred in the Starz comedy series, Blunt Talk (2015–2016), Fox Showcase political thriller Secret City (2016–19), Stan science fiction series Bloom (2019–20) and Epix thriller Perpetual Grace, LTD (2019). In 2021, she began appearing in the recurring role as Caroline Warner in the Paramount Network neo-Western series, Yellowstone.
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Malcolm McDowell is an English actor with a career spanning over forty years. McDowell is principally known for his roles in the controversial films Caligula, If...., O Lucky Man! and A Clockwork Orange. His versatility as an actor has led to his presence in many films and television series of different genres, including Tank Girl, Star Trek Generations, the TV serial Our Friends in the North, Entourage, Heroes, Metalocalypse, animated film Bolt and the 2007 remake of Halloween and the 2009 sequel Halloween II. He is also well known for his narration of the seminal 1982 documentary, The Compleat Beatles.
Annet Mahendru (born August 21, 1989) is an actress best known for her starring role as Nina Sergeevna Krilova in the 2013 FX series, The Americans. She is also known for her role as Jennifer "Huck" Mallick in the 2020 AMC series, The Walking Dead: World Beyond.
Mahendru was born to a Russian mother and Hindu Indian father in Afghanistan. She had what she calls a "gypsy" childhood, spending her first seven years of her childhood between Afghanistan and Saint Petersburg. She then lived with her mother at Saint Petersburg and regularly travelled between there and Frankfurt, before moving with her father to East Meadow, New York, at age 13, after her parents separated.
Mahendru is married to Australian filmmaker Louie Gibson. The couple have a son (born c. 2018). In addition to English, she is fluent in German, Russian, and Persian, and also speaks conversational French and Hindi.
Cody Fern (born July 6, 1988) is an Australian actor. He is best known for his work with Ryan Murphy on the FX anthology television series American Crime Story and American Horror Story.
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Ned Bellamy (born May 7, 1957) is an American actor. Bellamy was born in Dayton, Ohio. After graduating UCLA, he founded the Los Angeles based theater company The Actors' Gang with fellow actor Tim Robbins. He was featured on a role on an episode of Seinfeld entitled The Fatigues. His brother, Mark Bellamy, was the United States Ambassador to Kenya from 2003-2006.
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Carlos Leal (born 9 July 1969) is a Swiss rapper and actor. He was born in Lausanne to Galician immigrants. In 1990, he co-founded Sens Unik. The group produced four gold records and contributed music to the films La Haine (1995) and Neutre (2001).
Dennis Keiffer is a former K.I.C.K. Super Middleweight Kickboxing Champion. He took his skills to Television and Cinema as an actor and stuntman. Early in his career he worked on fight movies such as "Bloodfist", "Shootfighter", and "Die Trying". In the past 15 years Dennis has been a stunt actor on shows such as "CSI", "House", "Sons of Anarchy" and "True Blood" with theatrical releases such as "Death Sentence", "Indiana Jones", "The Green Hornet" and "Spider-Man".
Larry Bagby (born March 7, 1974) is an American actor and a musician. Bagby was born Lawrence Bagby III in Marysville, California. His father was a member of a dance band.
As a seasoned character actor, Skip has played multiple roles appearing in Feature Films, National Commercials, Network TV series and A-List Artist Music Videos as well as Web Series. He has also worked as a featured character in various industrial and training videos. Skip's characters include featured supporting role as an Italian Tailor in the upcoming comedy feature Stealing Pulp Fiction; Co-starring Jason Alexander and Cazzie David. As a Boxing Judge in Father Stu (Feature Film) with Mark Walberg and Mel Gibson, TV Executive on Lilly Singh's late night network talk show (Sketch comedy Universal/NBC), A Biker in Ed Sheeran's Music Video (Overpass Graffiti, A Motel Guest in Justin Bieber's Holy, and lead in a Warner sponsored Ed Sheeran video titled That's On Me. A featured Barber alongside Charles Barkley, Samuel L Jackson, Jennifer Garner, directed by Spike Lee in Capital One's National Commercial (Chuck Cuts) for the 2022 NCAA March Madness campaign. Prior roles include Professor/Teacher/Therapist to Gunslinger and Cowboy to CEO/Detective/Commander. He was a homeless man on the street and in the same production transformed into a successful businessman (Dahr Mann Production). Skip has the ability to cry on cue for character depth. Among Skip's outside interest, he rides a big 'bad' Harley Davidson and is an experienced skydiver with over 2300 jumps. He is a US Army Veteran, an ocean sailor and has taught ocean sailing. He rides his bicycle for exercise and loves to travel. He is a certified SCUBA diver and former private pilot. Skip's white 'Sam Elliott/Wilfred Brimley/Monopoly Man' mustache accentuates his roles and adds a unique element of comedy to those appropriate roles. His a trained artist in improv and also does close-up magic!
