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Stigmata (1999)

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Reviews Counted:89

Fresh:19

Rotten:70

Average Rating:4.1/10

Consensus: The story is unconvincing and the acting is weak.

Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Synopsis: Frankie Paige (Patricia Arquette) is in her twenties. She works as a hairdresser. She has a boyfriend. There are a hundred other girls like Frankie Paige within a mile radius of her apartment. ...

Frankie Paige (Patricia Arquette) is in her twenties. She works as a hairdresser. She has a boyfriend. There are a hundred other girls like Frankie Paige within a mile radius of her apartment.

But unlike all of them, things happen to Frankie -- terrible things she can’t understand or explain. And though she has tried everything to make them stop, they’re just getting worse. She goes to doctors and psychologists, but even they can’t answer the most important question: why her?

At the darkest moment of one of her episodes, a chance encounter with a local priest is caught on tape and the frightening implications of the incident drive the Vatican to send their own investigator, Andrew Kiernan (Gabriel Byrne). Confronted with the powerful force that has taken control of Frankie, Kiernan immediately recognizes the true danger she is in and he must search his own soul for the strength to save her life, even if it goes against everything he believes. [More]

Starring: Patricia Arquette, Gabriel Byrne, Jonathan Pryce, Nia Long

Starring: Patricia Arquette, Gabriel Byrne, Jonathan Pryce, Nia Long

Director: Rupert Wainwright

Director: Rupert Wainwright
Screenwriter: Tom Lazarus
Producer: Frank Mancuso
Composer: Billy Corgan

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Stephanie Zacharek
Stephanie Zacharek
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An entertaining and eerie adventure!

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David Keyes
David Keyes
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I don't see the story as an anti-religious film, as much as I saw it as a challenge to having one way of looking at religion.

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Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

A supernatural thriller about a Vatican conspiracy to suppress an Aramaic text that could shake the foundations of the church.

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03/04/02
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice

Stigmata is an unusually intelligent and original thriller.

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James Berardinelli
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John R. McEwen
John R. McEwen
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Pone el dedo en la llaga al cuestionar a los líderes religiosos católicos

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Jorge Avila Andrade
Jorge Avila Andrade
Moviola

You really wouldn't rush out to see this, wait for the video.

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Kamal  'The Diva' Larsuel
Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel
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Funky style, funkier soundtrack!

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Ken Fox
Ken Fox
TV Guide's Movie Guide

A shameless guilty pleasure!

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Kenneth Turan
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Got a sweet humanistic spiritual message wrapped into its broader themes of bloodletting.

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Mark Ramsey
Mark Ramsey
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Surprisingly serious and intelligent food for thought about faith and supernatural phenomena.

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Michael Dequina
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