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Director:
Steven Schachter
Writers:
Sue Monk Kidd (book)
Suzette Couture (teleplay)
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Release Date:
9 September 2006 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Romance more
Plot:
A married woman (Basinger) falls in love with a Benedictine monk. | add synopsis
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Location?Never mind more

Cast

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Kim Basinger ... Jessie Sullivan

Alex Carter ... Brother 'Whit' Thomas

Bruce Greenwood ... Hugh Sullivan
Roberta Maxwell ... Nelle
Debra Mooney ... Kat

Lorena Gale ... Hepzibah

Ellie Harvie ... Benne
Ken Pogue ... Father Dominic
Victoria Anderson ... Dee

Shaun Johnston ... Joseph Dubois
Alex Bruhanski ... Shem

Terence Kelly ... Dom Anthony
Joanne Wilson ... Woman Patient
Sy Pederson ... Brother Timothy

L. Harvey Gold ... Tourist
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Additional Details

Country:
USA | Canada
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Certification:
USA:TV-PG

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1 out of 5 people found the following comment useful:-
Location?Never mind, 15 September 2006
3/10
Author: SavannahB from Joja

Didn't care for the movie, the book was better. Does anyone know where it was filmed? *** this was my first visit to your site...just found the answer to my question. so now I look like a dummy, but I think I'll still submit my comments. and yes, British Columbia is lovely ***Or why they took it from its South Carolina Coastal setting?(this question stands) The place was essential to the fabric of the book and its change was part of my disappointment with the movie. Oh, I just read where I need to write at least ten lines. Here's my other main issue with the film. Kim Bassinger was too vapid and not at all what I pictured from the book. I know, the book was the book and the movie; well not so good. I found the character in the book much more empathetic. Also the book evoked rustic, almost primitive images of the monastery. While the "castle" in the film was much more visually impressive, it distorted the feel of the story and seemed at odds with the characters.

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