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  • 2022
  • PG-13
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 2 h 4 m
  • 2022
  • PG-13
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 2 h 4 m

Summary When an injury ends his amateur boxing career, Stuart Long (Mark Wahlberg) moves to L.A. dreaming of stardom. While scraping by as a supermarket clerk, he meets Carmen (Teresa Ruiz), a Catholic 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 ...

Directed By: Rosalind Ross

Written By: Rosalind Ross

  • 2022
  • PG-13
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 2 h 4 m
  • 2022
  • PG-13
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 2 h 4 m

Father Stu

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 27 Critic Reviews
40
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 50 User Ratings
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Summary When an injury ends his amateur boxing career, Stuart Long (Mark Wahlberg) moves to L.A. dreaming of stardom. While scraping by as a supermarket clerk, he meets Carmen (Teresa Ruiz), a Catholic 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 ...

Directed By: Rosalind Ross

Written By: Rosalind Ross

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 27 Critic Reviews
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11% Positive
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67% Mixed
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22% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 27 Critic Reviews
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11% Positive
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67% Mixed
18 Reviews
22% Negative
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75
Apr 12, 2022
Father Stu breaks no new ground in the biopic game, but it’s a solid and worthy tribute to the real-life Father Stu, who continued to do the Lord’s work until his death in 2014 at the age of 50.
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50
Apr 13, 2022
Father Stu understood how to connect to skeptics and non-believers. Instead of reaching a broader audience, Wahlberg and Gibson preach to the choir.
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56% Positive
28 Ratings
22% Mixed
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22% Negative
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Emmanuel_Salva
Mar 15, 2024
I would try to get a censored version of the movie due to the constant swearing. Other than that, it is a great film.
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10
Janetnyc
Sep 23, 2022
Loved this movie! The dialogue is witty and pertinent. This true story is uplifting and the acting is excellent. Great work by Mark Wahlberg!
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50
Apr 12, 2022
Ultimately, Father Stu is a movie about faith, but some kinds of faith have limits. So does casting. Wahlberg as a seminarian is one kind of stretch.
By Mark Feeney FULL REVIEW
42
Apr 13, 2022
Father Stu is exactly this kind of intriguing mix, of illuminating religious philosophy and utterly baffling narrative choices. It’s vaguely inspiring, slightly tedious to sit through, and ultimately unknowable, like any good Catholic sermon.
By Vince Mancini FULL REVIEW
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May 13, 2022
Mark Wahlberg is convincing and committed as a foul-mouthed Father, but this is ultimately just religious propaganda — preaching exclusively to the converted.
By John Nugent FULL REVIEW
30
May 13, 2022
The unfocused script from outclassed first-timer Ross never really follows through on what should be its foundational idea, led astray by underdone subplots and vague relationships between its characters.
By Charles Bramesco FULL REVIEW
25
Apr 12, 2022
There’s always something a little off about Father Stu, a sense that the filmmakers have taken a lot of liberties with a real life to make it extra saintly.
By Mark Kennedy FULL REVIEW
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Cyclone84
Jun 4, 2022
An interesting biopic of an interesting individual; a nice change of pace to the standard film we're normally getting these days.
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Voodoo123
Oct 28, 2022
This was an entertaining and some times quite touching dramedy. The decent screenplay drives it's talented cast through a sepia toned handheld camera style of cinematography with whalbergs trademark 'gangsta sassiness' as the centrepiece. Ultimately there's nothing particularly original here given the huge wealth of dramas with similar beats to it. The real movie would've been just Gibson and whalberg in a room for a couple hours. Nevermind! Worth a watch but few surprises.
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GLADIADOR
Jun 5, 2022
Filme bem mediano, foi um bom passa tempo. Conta a historia de um lutador que se tornou padre
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IntakeCinema
Jul 5, 2022
I honestly expected Father Stu to be terrible. It kinda is, but it was above my expectations at least. I mostly have a hard time seeing who the target audience is for this - the subject matter screams Catholics and Catholic adjacent religious folk but the R rating/language throughout would turn most of them away and the overall message just seems to be all over the place...
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MetacriticOnur
May 30, 2022
bad [ bad ] adjective, worse, worst;(Slang) bad·der, bad·dest for 36. not good in any manner or degree.
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Production Company CJ Entertainment, Municipal Pictures, Palm Drive Productions
Release Date Apr 13, 2022
Duration 2 h 4 m
Rating PG-13
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Tagline God Wanted a Fighter...And He Found One
Website https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/fatherstu
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• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Taurus World Stunt Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
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• 1 Nomination

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