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MOVIE2012 1h 12m ESP
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Euliss F. "Sonny" Dewey (Duvall) is a charismatic (movement) Pentecostal preacher. His wife Jessie (Fawcett) has begun an adulterous relationship with a youth minister named Horace. She refuses Sonny's desire to reconcile, although she assures him that she will not interfere with his right to see his children. She has also conspired to use their church's bylaws to have him removed from power. Sonny asks God what to do but receives no answer. Much of the congregation sides with Jessie in this dispute. Sonny, however, refuses to start a new church, insisting that the one which forced him out was "his" church. At his child's Little League game, Sonny, in an emotional and drunken fit, attacks Horace with a bat and puts him into a coma; Horace later dies.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Jorge Sanz
Pablo
Celso Bugallo
Celso
Manuel Manquiña
Salustiano
Carlos Blanco
Ramón
Geraldine Chaplin
Dorinda
Luis Tosar
Xavier