This is a real movie ... wrong.” Padre Pio Rated R for themes, violence, Shia LaBeouf’s language. Running time: 1 hour 44 minutes. In theaters. Starring Alongside Stitch: Cast members from ...

“There are scenes where we’re running Mass and these aren’t actors in the ... for the role of Padre Pio, said that “I know for a fact that God wanted this movie to be made.” ...

He has a cast of ... come to this movie expecting a more straightforward portrait of a Catholic icon. (Ferrara, of course, mostly excludes the acts and miracles that led to Padre Pio’s ultimate ...

Shia LaBeouf was in a reverential frame of mind at the first public screening of Abel Ferrara‘s “Padre Pio” at the Venice ... “We had an incredible cast that did most of the heavy lifting ...

Ferrara’s Padre Pio is not the hero of his movie, far from it. But his sainted Pio does pose moral quandaries that may require heroic effort to reconcile.

Here, the primarily Italian cast is stuck speaking English dialogue ... There’s also the problem that this is supposed to be a movie about Padre Pio, who nonetheless never quite comes into ...

Padre Pio, the main one has to be: Why, oh why Abel, did you decide to make the movie in English? Granted, Ferrara probably felt more comfortable working in his native tongue — as likely did ...