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Worst Musical Score | 1983 | John
The time span covered in this movie is three decades. The central character of Father Father Flaherty (Christopher Reeve) ages from his twenties to his fifties in this time-span.
To prepare for his role in this film, actor Christopher Reeve researched religion and Catholicism by visiting the Centre for Alternative Religious Broadcasting in Washington D.C., studying with a Paulist priest at a Paulist's retreat in New Jersey, and for six weeks, he did a residency at the Paulist Fathers Order's Archdiocese in New York City.
Because of his role as a priest in this movie, Christopher Reeve was once considered for the Richard Chamberlain role in The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years (1996), the sequel to The Thorn Birds (1983), the latter, which is well known for being about the forbidden relationship between a priest and a woman, actually debuted after Monsignor (1982), which also examines such a coupling. Reeve would later play a priest again in the tele-movie Mortal Sins (1992).
Actor Christopher Reeve blamed the film's poor box-office and critical reception on the picture's editing. Reeve also once said of this film's failure: "Monsignor should have been a good movie, and it just went off the track for reasons that I don't want to embarrass a lot of people by discussing. The way it was released, the movie is sort of a series of outrageous incidents that you find hard to believe. Since they don't have a focus, and since they aren't justified and explained, they become laughable."
This film was made and released about six years after its source novel 'Monsignore' by Jack-Alain Léger was first published in 1976.
"Clara: What were you waiting for? Flaherty: A miracle. Clara: Do you think God was planning on wasting a miracle on US?"
