RECKONING

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• Release Year: 2004
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: in 14th-century England, a young monk breaks his vow of chastity and flees the wrath of his bishop and fellow monks. A fugitive priest, he then witnesses the murder of a traveling performer--and subsequently, the mourning of actor by his fellow troupe members. He eventually becomes initiated into the troupe as a player, replacing the murdered man. They travel from town to town performing their standard morality play. They arrive in a town where a boy has been killed and a young deaf-mute girl has been imprisoned for the crime--sentenced to death for witchcraft and murder. Discarding the expected bible stories, the actors stage a performance based on the crime. Through the performance of the play, they discover that the townspeople know the young woman did not, in fact, commit the murder. The stage becomes a place where vital human truth is told. Thus, simultaneously, the fugitive priest comes to terms with his own crime and makes a powerful sacrifice, thereby redeeming himself.
• Cast: Paul Bettany, Marián Aguilera, Trevor Steedman, Simon McBurney, Tom Hardy, Brian Cox, Willem Dafoe, Gina McKee, Stuart Wells, Elvira Mínguez, Richard Durden, Ewen Bremner, Mark Benton, Hamish McColl, Matthew Macfadyen, Luke de Woolfson, Niall Buggy, Julian Barratt, Luisa Requena Baron, Pedro Martinez De Dioni, Tom Georgeson, Simon Pegg, Teresa Berganza, Rafa Izuzkiza, José Luis Martínez Gutiérrez, Valerie Pearson, James Cosmo, Balbino Lacosta, Heathcote Williams, David Luque, Paul McGuigan
• Director: Paul McGuigan
• Runtime: 1:50
• Company: Paramount
• Media Format: Movie