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Article: MTV-style packaging hinders serious themes in `Stigmata'.(VARIETY)(Review) (movie review)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- September 10, 1999
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1/3 "Stigmata" is part horror movie, part espionage tale and part religious treatise, all cut up into millisecond segments and packaged for an MTV audience.
Hairdresser Frankie Paige (Patricia Arquette) starts experiencing stigmata, bloody wounds on the hands and feet that resemble those suffered by Jesus Christ during the crucifixion. The Vatican sends a priest, Andrew Kiernan (Gabriel Byrne), to see if it's a hoax. He determines that it's not fake, but he's not at all sure what it is.
All recorded instances of stigmata have involved deeply religious people, he explains. But that hardly fits Frankie. For someone who is so antagonistic toward God ...
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