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Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Annette O'Toole
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Broken Vows |
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This movie stars Tommy Lee Jones as Father Joseph Mcmahon, a priest struggling with his faith. The movie starts with McMahon being interupted while giving confessional by a boy who says a man is in trouble. He runs through the streets and into a building to find a man stabbed in the stomach. The man refuses any help from the priest. He gives him his last rites and he dies. Annette O'Toole (Nim), the dead man's girlfriend, finds McMahon from an article in the paper and we follow as McMahon and Nim become close and eventually fall in love. McMahon becomes more aware of the problems around him and he must make the monumental decision of staying with the church or leaving to be with the woman he has now fallen in love with. This movie is based on the book "Where The Dark Streets Go" by Dorothy Salisbury Davis
--Bobby Blades, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Broken Vows |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Kind of romance:
- romance (general)
Inner struggle or disability
Yes
Struggle with
- religious issues
Job/Profession/Poverty Story?
Yes
Job:
- religious figure
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- religious figure
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- red
Hair style
- (woman) long wavey
Body type
- (woman) average
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- general circumstances
Setting
United States
Yes
City?
Yes
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- thoughtful
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
Any profanity?
- None
Is this movie based on a
- book
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