Popcorn! Mother Teresa movie opens this week.

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Went to the movies last week and was tortured with the preview for The Letters, the new biopic about Mother Teresa. It opens Dec. 4.

Which is sort of strange, since according to Variety, it was supposed to open 3 months ago, on Sept. 5. I'm guessing they decided it was a better fit for the Xmas season. Though sometimes movies get held up for more secular reasons. Like somebody wants more money.

Not that 3 months matters a whole lot to this movie. Because the director has been working on it for FOURTEEN YEARS.

"The movie became a labor of love and a real passion for me over the last 14 years because of Mother Teresa’s lasting impact on all of our lives,” said producer-director William Riead.

Hmph. Atheist Grump notes the usual Xian privilege. Mother Teresa had no impact on my life. Other than inspiring me to read Hitchen's great book about the gnomish little fraud. The imDb comments are worth reading because several people mentioned Hitchens' book:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1445208/

With Juliet Stephenson as MT and Max von Sydow. AND Rutger Hauer (!!!) as a priest. Who unfortunately doesn't seem to kick Mother Teresa's ass all over the screen like I hoped. Maybe that'll be in the Director's Cut.

At the Sedona Film Festival, the film won the Audience Favorite “Best of the Fest” Award, and the International Catholic Film Festival in Rome, where Riead was honored as Best Director and Juliet Stevenson as Best Actress.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Letters_(film)

A movie about Mother Teresa won awards at the International Catholic Film Festival? What a shock!

I noticed this on the ImDb page, under "People who liked this also liked..."

The Danish Girl (2015) - Biography | Drama - The remarkable love story inspired by the lives of artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and Gerda's marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili's groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.

So if you like Mother Teresa, you'll also like a movie about a transgender pioneer. I...uh...have to wonder about that.