Keeping the Faith is a 2000 comedy-drama film, written by Stuart Blumberg and directed by Edward Norton. This film was released by Touchstone Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment, in association with Triple Threat Talent on April 5, 2000.
The film is Edward Norton's directorial debut, and was dedicated to his late mother, Robin Norton. The film had a budget of $30,000,000, with total US Gross box office receipts of $37,036,404.
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Keeping the Faith is a 2000 comedy-drama film, written by Stuart Blumberg and directed by Edward Norton. This film was released by Touchstone Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment, in association with Triple Threat Talent on April 5, 2000.
The film is Edward Norton's directorial debut, and was dedicated to his late mother, Robin Norton. The film had a budget of $30,000,000, with total US Gross box office receipts of $37,036,404.
The film begins with a drunken and downtrodden Catholic priest stumbling aimlessly around town while "Please Call Me Baby", performed by Tom Waits, plays, then telling his story to a sympathetic bartender (Brian George). Father Brian Kilkenney Finn (Edward Norton) has been dedicated to the calling since he was a child, and now shares the duties of a New York congregation with an older priest, Fr. Havel (Miloš Forman). Rabbi Jacob Schram (Ben Stiller), best friends with Brian since childhood, is the youngest rabbi at his Conservative synagogue; his lack of effort...
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