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{{Short description|1999 film by Rupert Wainwright}}
{{Infobox film {{Infobox film
| name = Stigmata | name = Stigmata
| image = Stigmata film.jpg | image = Stigmata film.jpg
⚫ | alt = A washed out red image of a woman with arms outstretched as if being crucified
| image_size = 215px
⚫ | alt = A washed out red image of a woman with arms oustretched as if being crucified
| caption = Theatrical release poster | caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = ] | director = ]
| producer = ]<br />] | producer = ]
| writer = ]<br />] | screenplay = ]<br />Rick Ramage
| story = Tom Lazarus
| starring = ]<br />]<br />]<br />]<br />]
| starring = {{Plainlist|
⚫ | music = ]<br />]
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]}}
⚫ | music = ]<br />]<br />]
| cinematography = ] | cinematography = ]
| editing = ] | editing = Michael R. Miller
| studio = FGM Entertainment | studio = ]<br>FGM Entertainment
| distributor = ] | distributor = {{Plainlist|
* ] (United States)
* ] (International)
}}
| released = {{Film date|1999|9|10}} | released = {{Film date|1999|9|10}}
| runtime = 103 minutes | runtime = 103 minutes
| country = United States | country = {{Plainlist|
* United States
* Mexico<ref>{{cite web |url=https://en.kinorium.com/124557/ |title=Stigmata |website=kinorium.com |access-date=December 6, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.abandomoviez.net/db/pelicula.php?film=467 |title=Stigmata (1999) |website=abandomoviez.net |access-date=February 12, 2012}}</ref>
⚫ | language = English<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/590414?view=release|work=BFI Film & TV Database|publisher=]|accessdate=December 15, 2012|location=London|title=Release}}</ref>
}}
⚫ | language = Aramaic<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/590414?view=release|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090118185006/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/590414?view=release|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 18, 2009|work=BFI Film & TV Database|publisher=]|accessdate=December 15, 2012|location=London|title=Release}}</ref><br />English<br />Portuguese
| budget = $29 million<ref name="BOMojo" /> | budget = $29 million<ref name="BOMojo" />
| gross = $89,446,268<ref name="BOMojo" /> | gross = $89.4 million<ref name="BOMojo" />
}} }}

'''''Stigmata''''' is a 1999 ] directed by ] and starring ] as an ] hairdresser from ], who is afflicted with the ] after acquiring a ] formerly owned by a deceased Italian priest who himself suffered from the phenomenon. ] plays a ] official who investigates her case, and ] plays a corrupt ] official. '''''Stigmata''''' is a 1999 ] directed by ], written by ] and Rick Ramage, and distributed by ]. The story follows an atheist hairdresser from ], who is afflicted with ] after acquiring a ] formerly owned by a deceased Italian priest who himself had suffered from the phenomenon. It stars ], ], ], ], ] and ].

The film was produced by FGM Entertainment and was released on September 10, 1999. It grossed $18.3 million during its opening weekend and $89.4 million worldwide, against a budget of $29 million.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl3614672385/|title=Stigmata|website=Box Office Mojo|access-date=2020-02-21}}</ref> It received generally negative reviews and has a 22% approval rating on ].<ref name = "RT"/> Despite its negative reviews, ''Stigmata'' earned more than triple its budget.


==Plot== ==Plot==
⚫ In the ]ian village of Belo Quinto, Father Andrew Kiernan, a former scientist and a ] ] who investigates supposed miracles, examines a statue of the ] weeping blood at the funeral of Father Paulo Alameida, who had previously experienced ]. While Andrew is collecting evidence, a young boy steals a rosary from the father's hand. The boy later sells it to a woman in a marketplace, who sends it to her daughter, Frankie Paige, living in ].
{{Anchor|Synopsis}}
⚫ The film opens in the ]ian village of Belo Quinto, with Father Andrew Kiernan (]), a former scientist and an ] ] ] who investigates supposed miracles, examining a statue of the ] weeping blood at the funeral of Father Paulo Alameida (]). While Andrew is collecting evidence, a young boy steals the rosary from the father's hand. The boy later sells it to a woman in a marketplace, who sends it to her ] daughter Frankie Paige (]) living in ].


Shortly after, Frankie is attacked by an unseen force while bathing, and receives two deep wounds on her wrists. As the wounds are treated, the doctors cannot find the cause beyond that they are puncture wounds and go all the way through the wrist. On the way home from work on the train, Frankie approaches a priest and asks if he is Andrew Kiernan. After the priest tells her he is Father Derning, the lights in the train begin to flash, and Frankie is whipped from behind by an unseen force, Father Derning watching in horror. While Frankie is hospitalized again, the priest sends security tapes showing the attack to the ], and Andrew is sent to investigate. Shortly afterward, Frankie is attacked by an unseen force while bathing, and receives two deep wounds on her wrists. As the wounds are treated, doctors cannot find the cause. On her way home, Frankie asks a priest if he is Andrew Kiernan, the scientist, priest and investigator. When the priest says he is Father Derning, the lights in the train flash and Frankie is whipped from behind by an unseen force. While Frankie is hospitalized again, the priest sends security tapes showing the attack to the ], and Andrew is sent to investigate.


Andrew meets Frankie, who tells him she has been expecting him, and Andrew interviews her, believing her wounds may be ]. When she tells him she is an ], Andrew tells her that stigmata is when the deeply devoted are struck with the ] that ] received during the crucifixion. Frankie begins to unsuccessfully research on her own what the cause could be. Later, at a nightclub, her head begins to bleed, the third stigmata wound caused by the ]. Frankie runs home, where Andrew is waiting, and then runs into an alley. As Andrew pursues her, Frankie smashes a glass bottle and uses the shards to carve symbols on the hood of a car: when Andrew approaches her, she yells at him in another language. Andrew interviews Frankie, believing her wounds may also be stigmata. When she tells him she is an ], Andrew tells her that stigmata is when the deeply devoted are struck with the ] that Jesus received during the crucifixion. Frankie begins to research on her own what the cause could be. Later in a club her head begins to bleed from the third stigmata wound caused by the ]. Frankie runs home, where Andrew is waiting, and then runs into an alley. As Andrew pursues her, Frankie smashes a glass bottle and uses the shards to carve symbols on the hood of a car: when Andrew approaches her, she yells at him in another language.


Andrew takes Frankie to Father Derning's church, and the Vatican translates what she was yelling as ], the ]. The next morning, Andrew returns to her apartment to find her writing on the wall, now covered in Aramaic. Frankie talks in a male voice, speaking ]. Later, wounds appear in her feet, the fourth wound of stigmata. Andrew emails photographs of Frankie's apartment wall to the Vatican, where Brother Delmonico (]) recognizes the words and deletes the pictures. He tells Andrew the words are from a document the church found that looked to be an entirely new ]. Father Dario (]) shows the pictures to Cardinal Daniel Houseman (]), who also recognizes them. Delmonico phones Marion Petrocelli (]) and tells him the missing gospel has been found in Pittsburgh. Andrew takes Frankie to Father Derning's church, and the Vatican translates what she was yelling in ]. The next morning, Andrew returns to her apartment to find her writing on the wall, now covered in Aramaic. Frankie talks in a male voice, speaking ]. Wounds appear on her feet, the fourth wound of stigmata. Andrew emails photographs of Frankie's apartment wall to Vatican, where Brother Delmonico recognizes the words and deletes the pictures. He tells Andrew the words are from a document the church found that looked to be an entirely new ]. Father Dario hears it and shows the pictures to Cardinal Daniel Houseman, who also recognizes them. Delmonico phones Marion Petrocelli and tells him the missing gospel has been found in Pittsburgh.


In Pittsburgh, Andrew goes to Frankie's apartment to find the wall she wrote on painted over, and Frankie attempts to seduce him. When Andrew rejects her, she attacks him and denounces his beliefs in a male voice, ending with Frankie ] off the bed, crying tears of blood. Houseman and Dario arrive with Derning and take Frankie to another church, sending Andrew to Derning's. At Derning's church, Andrew meets Petrocelli, who tells him the words Frankie has been writing are part of a document found outside ] that they believed to be a gospel in the exact words of Jesus. Petrocelli, Delmonico and Alameida were assigned to translate it, but Houseman ordered them to stop. Alameida refused and stole the document to continue translating it alone, having been ] by Houseman. Andrew goes to Frankie's apartment to find the wall she wrote on painted over, and Frankie attempts to seduce him. When Andrew rejects her, she attacks him and denounces his beliefs in a male voice, ending with Frankie ] off the bed, crying tears of blood. Houseman and Dario arrive with Derning and take Frankie to another church, sending Andrew to Derning's.


At Derning's church, Andrew meets Petrocelli, who tells him the words Frankie has been writing are part of a document found outside ] they believed to be a gospel in the exact words of Jesus. Petrocelli, Delmonico and Alameida were assigned to translate it, but Houseman ordered them to stop. Alameida refused and stole the document to continue translating it alone, having been ] by Houseman. Petrocelli tells Andrew that the document was Jesus telling his disciples that the ] is in all of us and not confined to churches. Petrocelli tells Andrew that Alameida suffered from stigmata.
⚫ Petrocelli tells Andrew that the document was Jesus telling his disciples that the ] is in all of us and not confined to churches, a revelation that could ruin the ]. Petrocelli also tells Andrew that Alameida suffered from stigmata. Andrew races to the church where Frankie is, while Houseman and Dario attempt to perform an ] on Frankie. Frankie shouts at them in a male voice, and Houseman attempts to strangle her. Andrew stops him, and the room is set on fire. Now believing Frankie is possessed by Alameida's spirit, Andrew offers to be Alameida's messenger instead. He walks unharmed through the fire to retrieve Frankie, bidding Alameida's spirit to depart in peace. Some time later, Andrew returns to Belo Quinto and finds the original documents for the lost gospel in Alameida's church.


⚫ Andrew races to the church where Frankie is, while Houseman and Dario attempt to perform an ] on Frankie. Frankie shouts at them in a male voice, and Houseman attempts to strangle her. Andrew stops him, and the room is set on fire. Now believing Frankie is possessed by Alameida's spirit, Andrew offers to be Alameida's messenger instead. He walks unharmed through the fire to retrieve Frankie, bidding Alameida's spirit to depart in peace.
⚫ The film ends with a screen of text describing the discovery of the ], believed, according to the film, to be the closest thing to the actual words of Jesus while alive: the film states the Catholic Church refuses to recognize the document as a gospel and considers it ].

Some time later, Andrew returns to Belo Quinto and finds the original documents for the lost gospel in Alameida's church.
⚫ Text just before the end credits describes the discovery of the ], stating that the Catholic Church refuses to recognize the document as a gospel and considers it ].


==Cast== ==Cast==
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* ] as Steven * ] as Steven
* ] as Dr. Reston * ] as Dr. Reston
* ] as Doctor
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==Reception== ==Production==
An international co-production film between The United States and Mexico, development was first announced in January 1998, when ] announced his intention to produce a supernatural thriller helmed by ].<ref name="MacusoJrReupsMGM">{{cite news|url=https://variety.com/1998/film/news/mancuso-jr-reups-at-mgm-for-5-years-1117466948/|title= Mancuso Jr. reups at MGM for 5 years |publisher=]|access-date=July 19, 2021}}</ref> Wainwright first came across Tom Lazarus' script for ''Stigmata'' back in 1992 and spent the next five years trying to get the film set up.<ref name="StigmataCF">{{cite magazine |last=Scapperotti|first=Dan|date=August 1999|title= Stigmata |url= https://archive.org/details/cinefantastique_1970-2002/Cinefantastique%20Vol%2031%20No%207%20%28Aug%201999%29/page/n53/mode/1up?view=theater|url-status= |magazine=Cinemafantastique |location= |publisher= Fourth Castle Micromedia|access-date=June 9, 2024}}</ref> Mancuso immediately greenlit the film upon meeting with Wainwright and being shown the screenplay, with Rick Ramage hired to work out script issues over the next nine months.<ref name= "StigmataCF"/>


==Reception==
===Box office=== ===Box office===
''Stigmata'', produced on a $29 million budget, premièred at the box office in the number one position, earning $18.3 million in its first weekend, becoming the first film in five weekends to outgross '']'' at the box office. In the United States, ''Stigmata'' earned $50,046,268. Internationally the film earned $39,400,000 for a total world wide gross $89,446,268.<ref name="BOMojo">{{cite web ''Stigmata'', produced on a $29 million budget, premiered at the box office in the number one position, earning $18.3 million in its first weekend, becoming the first film in five weekends to outgross '']'' at the box office. ''Stigmata'' grossed $50,046,268 in the United States, and $39,400,000 in other territories, for a worldwide total of $89,446,268.<ref name="BOMojo">{{cite web
| url = http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=stigmata.htm | url = https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=stigmata.htm
| title = Stigmata | title = Stigmata
| work = ] | work = ]
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===Critical response=== ===Critical response===
{{Anchor|Critics}} {{Anchor|Critics}}
The film received poor reviews; ] gives the film a score of 22% approval rating at, based on 89 reviews (19 positive, 70 negative).<ref>{{cite web The film received poor reviews. The ] website ] gives the film a score of 22% approval rating, based on 91 reviews (20 positive, 71 negative). The website's consensus reads, "The story is unconvincing and the acting is weak."<ref name = "RT">{{cite web
| url = http://rottentomatoes.com/m/stigmata/ | url = https://rottentomatoes.com/m/stigmata/
| title = Stigmata | title = Stigmata
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] called it "possibly the funniest movie ever made about Catholicism &mdash; from a theological point of view."<ref>{{cite news In his two-star review, ] called it "possibly the funniest movie ever made about Catholicism &mdash; from a theological point of view."<ref>{{cite news
| date = January 1, 1999 | date = January 1, 1999
| last = Ebert | last = Ebert
| first = Roger | first = Roger
| authorlink = Roger Ebert | authorlink = Roger Ebert
| url = http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19990101/REVIEWS/901010302/1023 | url = https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/stigmata-1999
| title = Roger Ebert's review of 'Stigmata' | title = Stigmata
| work = RogerEbert.com | work = ]
}}</ref> ] was nominated for a ] for Worst Supporting Actor for his performances in both this film and '']'', where he lost to ] as the voice of ] in '']''. }}</ref> Gabriel Byrne was nominated for a ] for Worst Supporting Actor for his performances in both this film and '']'', where he lost to ] as ] in '']''.

== Release ==
] released the film for the first time on Blu-ray on May 19, 2015.<ref>{{cite news
| url = http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/93859/stigmata-blu-ray-details-bleed-out/
| title = 'Stigmata' Blu-ray details
}}</ref>


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1999 film by Rupert Wainwright
Stigmata
A washed out red image of a woman with arms outstretched as if being crucifiedTheatrical release poster
Directed byRupert Wainwright
Screenplay byTom Lazarus
Rick Ramage
Story byTom Lazarus
Produced byFrank Mancuso, Jr.
Starring
CinematographyJeffrey L. Kimball
Edited byMichael R. Miller
Music byBilly Corgan
Mike Garson
Elia Cmiral
Production
companies		Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures
FGM Entertainment
Distributed by
Release date
  • September 10, 1999 (1999-09-10)
Running time103 minutes
Countries
  • United States
  • Mexico
LanguagesAramaic
English
Portuguese
Budget$29 million
Box office$89.4 million

Stigmata is a 1999 supernatural horror film directed by Rupert Wainwright, written by Tom Lazarus and Rick Ramage, and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures. The story follows an atheist hairdresser from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who is afflicted with stigmata after acquiring a rosary formerly owned by a deceased Italian priest who himself had suffered from the phenomenon. It stars Patricia Arquette, Gabriel Byrne, Jonathan Pryce, Nia Long, Portia de Rossi and Rade Šerbedžija.

The film was produced by FGM Entertainment and was released on September 10, 1999. It grossed $18.3 million during its opening weekend and $89.4 million worldwide, against a budget of $29 million. It received generally negative reviews and has a 22% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Despite its negative reviews, Stigmata earned more than triple its budget.

Plot

In the Brazilian village of Belo Quinto, Father Andrew Kiernan, a former scientist and a Jesuit priest who investigates supposed miracles, examines a statue of the Virgin Mary weeping blood at the funeral of Father Paulo Alameida, who had previously experienced stigmata. While Andrew is collecting evidence, a young boy steals a rosary from the father's hand. The boy later sells it to a woman in a marketplace, who sends it to her daughter, Frankie Paige, living in Pittsburgh.

Shortly afterward, Frankie is attacked by an unseen force while bathing, and receives two deep wounds on her wrists. As the wounds are treated, doctors cannot find the cause. On her way home, Frankie asks a priest if he is Andrew Kiernan, the scientist, priest and investigator. When the priest says he is Father Derning, the lights in the train flash and Frankie is whipped from behind by an unseen force. While Frankie is hospitalized again, the priest sends security tapes showing the attack to the Vatican, and Andrew is sent to investigate.

Andrew interviews Frankie, believing her wounds may also be stigmata. When she tells him she is an atheist, Andrew tells her that stigmata is when the deeply devoted are struck with the five wounds that Jesus received during the crucifixion. Frankie begins to research on her own what the cause could be. Later in a club her head begins to bleed from the third stigmata wound caused by the Crown of Thorns. Frankie runs home, where Andrew is waiting, and then runs into an alley. As Andrew pursues her, Frankie smashes a glass bottle and uses the shards to carve symbols on the hood of a car: when Andrew approaches her, she yells at him in another language.

Andrew takes Frankie to Father Derning's church, and the Vatican translates what she was yelling in Aramaic. The next morning, Andrew returns to her apartment to find her writing on the wall, now covered in Aramaic. Frankie talks in a male voice, speaking Italian. Wounds appear on her feet, the fourth wound of stigmata. Andrew emails photographs of Frankie's apartment wall to Vatican, where Brother Delmonico recognizes the words and deletes the pictures. He tells Andrew the words are from a document the church found that looked to be an entirely new gospel. Father Dario hears it and shows the pictures to Cardinal Daniel Houseman, who also recognizes them. Delmonico phones Marion Petrocelli and tells him the missing gospel has been found in Pittsburgh.

Andrew goes to Frankie's apartment to find the wall she wrote on painted over, and Frankie attempts to seduce him. When Andrew rejects her, she attacks him and denounces his beliefs in a male voice, ending with Frankie levitating off the bed, crying tears of blood. Houseman and Dario arrive with Derning and take Frankie to another church, sending Andrew to Derning's.

At Derning's church, Andrew meets Petrocelli, who tells him the words Frankie has been writing are part of a document found outside Jerusalem they believed to be a gospel in the exact words of Jesus. Petrocelli, Delmonico and Alameida were assigned to translate it, but Houseman ordered them to stop. Alameida refused and stole the document to continue translating it alone, having been excommunicated by Houseman. Petrocelli tells Andrew that the document was Jesus telling his disciples that the Kingdom of God is in all of us and not confined to churches. Petrocelli tells Andrew that Alameida suffered from stigmata.

Andrew races to the church where Frankie is, while Houseman and Dario attempt to perform an exorcism on Frankie. Frankie shouts at them in a male voice, and Houseman attempts to strangle her. Andrew stops him, and the room is set on fire. Now believing Frankie is possessed by Alameida's spirit, Andrew offers to be Alameida's messenger instead. He walks unharmed through the fire to retrieve Frankie, bidding Alameida's spirit to depart in peace.

Some time later, Andrew returns to Belo Quinto and finds the original documents for the lost gospel in Alameida's church. Text just before the end credits describes the discovery of the Gospel of Thomas, stating that the Catholic Church refuses to recognize the document as a gospel and considers it heresy.

Cast

Production

An international co-production film between The United States and Mexico, development was first announced in January 1998, when Frank Mancuso Jr. announced his intention to produce a supernatural thriller helmed by Rupert Wainwright. Wainwright first came across Tom Lazarus' script for Stigmata back in 1992 and spent the next five years trying to get the film set up. Mancuso immediately greenlit the film upon meeting with Wainwright and being shown the screenplay, with Rick Ramage hired to work out script issues over the next nine months.

Reception

Box office

Stigmata, produced on a $29 million budget, premiered at the box office in the number one position, earning $18.3 million in its first weekend, becoming the first film in five weekends to outgross The Sixth Sense at the box office. Stigmata grossed $50,046,268 in the United States, and $39,400,000 in other territories, for a worldwide total of $89,446,268.

Critical response

The film received poor reviews. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 22% approval rating, based on 91 reviews (20 positive, 71 negative). The website's consensus reads, "The story is unconvincing and the acting is weak."

In his two-star review, Roger Ebert called it "possibly the funniest movie ever made about Catholicism — from a theological point of view." Gabriel Byrne was nominated for a Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actor for his performances in both this film and End of Days, where he lost to Ahmed Best as Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.

Release

Scream Factory released the film for the first time on Blu-ray on May 19, 2015.

References

  1. "Stigmata". kinorium.com. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
  2. "Stigmata (1999)". abandomoviez.net. Retrieved February 12, 2012.
  3. "Release". BFI Film & TV Database. London: British Film Institute. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved December 15, 2012.
  4. ^ "Stigmata". Box Office Mojo.
  5. "Stigmata". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2020-02-21.
  6. ^ "Stigmata". Rotten Tomatoes.
  7. "Mancuso Jr. reups at MGM for 5 years". Variety. Retrieved July 19, 2021.
  8. ^ Scapperotti, Dan (August 1999). "Stigmata". Cinemafantastique. Fourth Castle Micromedia. Retrieved June 9, 2024.
  9. Ebert, Roger (January 1, 1999). "Stigmata". RogerEbert.com.
  10. "'Stigmata' Blu-ray details".

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