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Father Jud Duplenticy (Josh O'Connor), a former boxer turned Catholic priest in upstate New York, is reassigned after punching a rude deacon. He is made assistant pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Forti…
L'amarga lluita del noi del sucre
Father Jud Duplenticy (Josh O'Connor), a former boxer turned Catholic priest in upstate New York, is reassigned after punching a rude deacon. He is made assistant pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Fortitude, a rural parish led by Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin). Langstrom (Jeffrey Wright) is the bishop who assigned Duplenticy to Wicks' church in Chimney Rock. Martha Delacroix is a devout church lady and Wicks' right-hand woman. Samson, the groundskeeper, was the only other full-time employee of the church. Wicks is the grandson of Reverend Prentice Wicks (James Faulkner), who forced Jefferson's mother, Grace (Annie Hamilton), to remain at the church with the promise of receiving his inheritance, only for the fortune to disappear after Prentice's death. Grace ransacked the church and destroyed its crucifix, which the younger Wicks refuses to replace. Prentice is buried in a crypt on Church grounds. Grace died throwing herself against Prentice's crypt. Vera Draven (Kerry Washington) Esq., a tightly wound lawyer with father issues and a smoking habit. Cy is her adopted son. The whole town knew that Cy was her illegitimate brother. Lee Ross (Andrew Scott) a best-selling author who has been boot-licking Wicks for the source of his upcoming book. Simone Vivane (Cailee Spaeny) is a disabled former concert cellist and one of the church's biggest donors. Simone believes that Wicks can heal her. Dr. Nathaniel Sharp is the town doctor whose wife recently left for another man. Jud comes into conflict with Wicks over his incendiary preaching, which has driven away all but his most loyal parishioners. Jud tried to hold his own prayer meeting, but everyone leaves when they find out that Jud had not informed Wicks about the same. Jud confronts Wicks and says that he has kept everyone in his flock afraid and angry, and that is not how Jesus led his flock. Wicks responds by punching Jud in the abdomen. Jud spends his evening at Nikolai's (Noah Segan) bar. During a Good Friday service, Wicks dies suddenly in a storage closet near the pulpit, stabbed in the back with a knife fashioned from a devil's head lamp adornment that Jud previously stole from a bar and threw through a church window. Though the evidence is inconclusive, suspicion falls on Jud. Police chief Geraldine Scott (Mila Kunis) summons private detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) to investigate the death. He recruits Jud to assist him despite Scott's objections, assured of his innocence. Benoit tries to ascertain how Wicks was stabbed in the back in a closet that was covered from 3 sides. Benoit finds from a taped game video in Samson's shack that there was a RF burst (which could have triggered a remote control and caused interference in the taped game video) around the time of Wick's death, but when exactly the RF burst took place, Wicks was already dead and lying on his face for a few seconds. Benoit learns that Jud stayed inside the church even after everyone went outside with the body when the paramedics arrived, but before the arrival of the police. Benoit knew that Jud remained inside to remove the liquor bottle that was hidden behind the closet door, to protect Wicks' reputation and the faith of the people who believed in him. After Wicks' burial in Prentice's mausoleum, Jud and Blanc question the congregation, learning Wicks had abruptly disavowed his followers at a meeting just before his death. At the same meeting Vera had revealed that she came in possession of a document that showed that Wicks was Cy's father. Vera said that she felt violated that she had to raise Wicks' son, while he claimed that his own mother was a harlot. Wicks says that before he leaves the church, he will destroy every person in his flock. He tells Nat that he will tell the medical board that Nat is drunk while treating his patients. Wicks tells Lee that he will inform the public that his book is a boot-licking idiocy and is an affront to his ministry. He tells Simone that he cannot heal the faithless and calls Vera the nightmare of her father. Failed politician Cy Draven (Daryl McCormack) reveals that Wicks allegedly found Prentice's fortune and was planning to use it to pursue a career in politics with Cy, who he had learned was his illegitimate son. Cy tells Benoit that he told Wicks to burn the flock, so they do not become a liability when he launches his political career. Cy adds that he is now the inheritor of the fortune, but Wicks' bank accounts are empty and there is no reference to a Swiss bank account. The only reference he found was to "Eve's Apple". Jud finds a receipt that indicates that the crypt opening equipment was ordered a week before Wicks was murdered. This means someone knew in advance that Wicks would be dead soon. Jud drops out of the investigation, tired of Blanc's singular focus on the murder and the mystery of the fortune, choosing instead to focus on his ministry. Geraldine arrives and confronts Benoit. She says that Jud was the only one who saw Wicks fall in the closet and from the time he entered the closet, to Nat coming to closet door, Jud had 9 seconds unseen by anyone with Wicks's body. And that is when he could have stabbed Wicks. While returning to his rectory at night, Jud appears to witness Wicks exiting the mausoleum and embrace groundskeeper Samson (Thomas Haden Church). He is knocked out pursuing them and wakes up next to Samson's corpse. Jud finds that the order for the crypt opening equipment was placed by Wicks himself. Blanc stops Jud from turning himself in, having noticed a second adornment missing from the bar, stolen by town doctor and Wicks follower Nat Sharp (Jeremy Renner). Blanc and Jud go to the doctor's house and find his corpse dissolving in a tub of acid alongside Wicks' body. The following morning, the police and the congregation convene in the church for Jud's confession, only for Blanc to explain how Nat killed Wicks: he spiked Wicks' private flask with tranquilizer and attached the second adornment to his vestment (with a small vial of blood which was triggered by remote control) to fool Jud, covertly switching it out and stabbing Wicks while pretending to examine the body. Midway through his summation, however, Blanc has an epiphany and abruptly declares he cannot explain Wicks' resurrection nor Samson's murder (thereby leaving the conclusion that it was a miracle), and the congregation leaves per Scott's demand. Benoit tells Geraldine that he did not complete his summary to give the benefit of grace to the guilty, so they could confess of their own free will. Before Scott can arrest Jud, Wicks' former assistant, Martha (Glenn Close), reenters, ready to confess: before his death, Prentice swallowed a valuable diamond called Eve's Apple, the key to Wicks' $80 million fortune, which Grace sought in her desperation to escape the church. Jud's earnestness persuaded Martha to confess this to Wicks (when she wanted to confess to Jud), but she soon realized he was plotting to retrieve the diamond from Prentice's corpse. Martha had found that Wicks ordered the construction equipment. To stop him from spreading his hate, she plotted his murder with Nat, persuaded Samson to be buried in Wicks' place to retrieve the diamond and had the two stage Wicks' resurrection to restore faith in the church. When Nat killed Samson, framing Jud in the process, and tried to kill Martha to get the gem for himself, Martha tricked him into consuming a cup of coffee poisoned with Pentobarbital meant for her. After her confession, she collapses after having already taken the rest of the poison, which Blanc had realized during his denouement, hiding his final deduction to allow her to come forward on her own, to confess her sins. With her last breaths, she prays for forgiveness from all victims including, at Jud's urging, Grace. Jud performs absolution before she dies, and she drops the diamond. One year later, Jud is about to reopen the church, now renamed Our Lady of Perpetual Grace. Most of the former parishioners have moved on with their lives, while a disgruntled Cy, the presumed heir to Prentice's fortune, threatens to sue Jud, Blanc, and the church if the diamond is not returned, but they all proclaim ignorance. Blanc bids farewell as new parishioners enter for the first service of Jud, who hid the diamond inside the church's new crucifix.
L'amarga lluita del noi del sucre
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Father Jud Duplenticy (Josh O'Connor), a former boxer turned Catholic priest in upstate New York, is reassigned after punching a rude deacon. He is made assistant pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Fortitude, a rural parish led by Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin). Langstrom (Jeffrey Wright) is the bishop who assigned Duplenticy to Wicks' church in Chimney Rock.
Martha Delacroix is a devout church lady and Wicks' right-hand woman. Samson, the groundskeeper, was the only other full-time employee of the church. Wicks is the grandson of Reverend Prentice Wicks (James Faulkner), who forced Jefferson's mother, Grace (Annie Hamilton), to remain at the church with the promise of receiving his inheritance, only for the fortune to disappear after Prentice's death.
Grace ransacked the church and destroyed its crucifix, which the younger Wicks refuses to replace. Prentice is buried in a crypt on Church grounds. Grace died throwing herself against Prentice's crypt.
Vera Draven (Kerry Washington) Esq., a tightly wound lawyer with father issues and a smoking habit. Cy is her adopted son. The whole town knew that Cy was her illegitimate brother.
Lee Ross (Andrew Scott) a best-selling author who has been boot-licking Wicks for the source of his upcoming book. Simone Vivane (Cailee Spaeny) is a disabled former concert cellist and one of the church's biggest donors. Simone believes that Wicks can heal her.
Dr. Nathaniel Sharp is the town doctor whose wife recently left for another man. Jud comes into conflict with Wicks over his incendiary preaching, which has driven away all but his most loyal parishioners.
Jud tried to hold his own prayer meeting, but everyone leaves when they find out that Jud had not informed Wicks about the same. Jud confronts Wicks and says that he has kept everyone in his flock afraid and angry, and that is not how Jesus led his flock. Wicks responds by punching Jud in the abdomen.
Jud spends his evening at Nikolai's (Noah Segan) bar. During a Good Friday service, Wicks dies suddenly in a storage closet near the pulpit, stabbed in the back with a knife fashioned from a devil's head lamp adornment that Jud previously stole from a bar and threw through a church window. Though the evidence is inconclusive, suspicion falls on Jud.
Police chief Geraldine Scott (Mila Kunis) summons private detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) to investigate the death. He recruits Jud to assist him despite Scott's objections, assured of his innocence. Benoit tries to ascertain how Wicks was stabbed in the back in a closet that was covered from 3 sides.
Benoit finds from a taped game video in Samson's shack that there was a RF burst (which could have triggered a remote control and caused interference in the taped game video) around the time of Wick's death, but when exactly the RF burst took place, Wicks was already dead and lying on his face for a few seconds. Benoit learns that Jud stayed inside the church even after everyone went outside with the body when the paramedics arrived, but before the arrival of the police. Benoit knew that Jud remained inside to remove the liquor bottle that was hidden behind the closet door, to protect Wicks' reputation and the faith of the people who believed in him.
After Wicks' burial in Prentice's mausoleum, Jud and Blanc question the congregation, learning Wicks had abruptly disavowed his followers at a meeting just before his death. At the same meeting Vera had revealed that she came in possession of a document that showed that Wicks was Cy's father. Vera said that she felt violated that she had to raise Wicks' son, while he claimed that his own mother was a harlot.
Wicks says that before he leaves the church, he will destroy every person in his flock. He tells Nat that he will tell the medical board that Nat is drunk while treating his patients. Wicks tells Lee that he will inform the public that his book is a boot-licking idiocy and is an affront to his ministry.
He tells Simone that he cannot heal the faithless and calls Vera the nightmare of her father. Failed politician Cy Draven (Daryl McCormack) reveals that Wicks allegedly found Prentice's fortune and was planning to use it to pursue a career in politics with Cy, who he had learned was his illegitimate son. Cy tells Benoit that he told Wicks to burn the flock, so they do not become a liability when he launches his political career.
Cy adds that he is now the inheritor of the fortune, but Wicks' bank accounts are empty and there is no reference to a Swiss bank account. The only reference he found was to "Eve's Apple". Jud finds a receipt that indicates that the crypt opening equipment was ordered a week before Wicks was murdered.
This means someone knew in advance that Wicks would be dead soon. Jud drops out of the investigation, tired of Blanc's singular focus on the murder and the mystery of the fortune, choosing instead to focus on his ministry. Geraldine arrives and confronts Benoit.
She says that Jud was the only one who saw Wicks fall in the closet and from the time he entered the closet, to Nat coming to closet door, Jud had 9 seconds unseen by anyone with Wicks's body. And that is when he could have stabbed Wicks. While returning to his rectory at night, Jud appears to witness Wicks exiting the mausoleum and embrace groundskeeper Samson (Thomas Haden Church).
He is knocked out pursuing them and wakes up next to Samson's corpse. Jud finds that the order for the crypt opening equipment was placed by Wicks himself. Blanc stops Jud from turning himself in, having noticed a second adornment missing from the bar, stolen by town doctor and Wicks follower Nat Sharp (Jeremy Renner).
Blanc and Jud go to the doctor's house and find his corpse dissolving in a tub of acid alongside Wicks' body. The following morning, the police and the congregation convene in the church for Jud's confession, only for Blanc to explain how Nat killed Wicks: he spiked Wicks' private flask with tranquilizer and attached the second adornment to his vestment (with a small vial of blood which was triggered by remote control) to fool Jud, covertly switching it out and stabbing Wicks while pretending to examine the body. Midway through his summation, however, Blanc has an epiphany and abruptly declares he cannot explain Wicks' resurrection nor Samson's murder (thereby leaving the conclusion that it was a miracle), and the congregation leaves per Scott's demand.
Benoit tells Geraldine that he did not complete his summary to give the benefit of grace to the guilty, so they could confess of their own free will. Before Scott can arrest Jud, Wicks' former assistant, Martha (Glenn Close), reenters, ready to confess: before his death, Prentice swallowed a valuable diamond called Eve's Apple, the key to Wicks' $80 million fortune, which Grace sought in her desperation to escape the church. Jud's earnestness persuaded Martha to confess this to Wicks (when she wanted to confess to Jud), but she soon realized he was plotting to retrieve the diamond from Prentice's corpse.
Martha had found that Wicks ordered the construction equipment. To stop him from spreading his hate, she plotted his murder with Nat, persuaded Samson to be buried in Wicks' place to retrieve the diamond and had the two stage Wicks' resurrection to restore faith in the church. When Nat killed Samson, framing Jud in the process, and tried to kill Martha to get the gem for himself, Martha tricked him into consuming a cup of coffee poisoned with Pentobarbital meant for her.
After her confession, she collapses after having already taken the rest of the poison, which Blanc had realized during his denouement, hiding his final deduction to allow her to come forward on her own, to confess her sins. With her last breaths, she prays for forgiveness from all victims including, at Jud's urging, Grace. Jud performs absolution before she dies, and she drops the diamond.
One year later, Jud is about to reopen the church, now renamed Our Lady of Perpetual Grace. Most of the former parishioners have moved on with their lives, while a disgruntled Cy, the presumed heir to Prentice's fortune, threatens to sue Jud, Blanc, and the church if the diamond is not returned, but they all proclaim ignorance. Blanc bids farewell as new parishioners enter for the first service of Jud, who hid the diamond inside the church's new crucifix..