Noelle

Father Jonathan Keene – a cold, impatient Catholic priest – arrives in a tiny fishing village the week before Christmas to do what he does best: shut down a dying parish...

Cast

David Wall

as Father Jonathan Keene

Sean Patrick Brennan

as Father Simeon Joyce

Kerry Wall

as Marjorie Worthington

Brennan Wall

as Noëlle

Jean Bates

as Eleanor Worthington

Curt Dewitz

as Seth Harrod

Reviews

Peter McGinn

Okay, this review will suffer because the one I just wrote disappeared into the TMDB ether, and I didn’t like the movie enough to recreate what I just wrote. In brief, my reaction is that the acting seems restrained at times, almost wooden, such as with Father Simeon. He seemed depressed. Plus th...

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