Father Stu Movie Storyline. Stu is an amateur boxer from Helena, Montana with a foul mouth and a troubled relationship with his mother and alcoholic father. His brother Stephen died at age six, leading to a rift in the family and causing his parents to be hostile towards religion. He moves to southern California to try to make it as an actor, and gets a job in a grocery store, reasoning that everyone shops for groceries and it will be easier to get connected in the entertainment industry. He is arrested for a DUI and attempts to steal his father’s truck to make it to an audition.
While working in the store he meets a woman named Carmen, whom he tracks to a local Catholic parish, where she is a volunteer Sunday school teacher. Carmen resists his advances at first, but Stu is persistent. She tells him she would not even consider dating him unless he gets baptized. Stu agrees and begins RCIA at the parish. He is befriended by a fellow parishioner named Ham, but is looked down upon by another named Jacob. Both Ham and Jacob are headed for the seminary. Stu is baptized in the parish. He and Carmen begin dating and he later meets her parents.
Stu gets an apartment and tries to clean up his drinking, and lands an acting role on an infomercial. However, he faces discouragement and returns to the bar one night where a mysterious man gives him some advice and tells him not to drive home. Stu ignores the advice and drives drunk on a motorcycle, crashing in to a car and being thrown off the motorcycle and run over by another car.
Severely injured, he drifts in and out of consciousness and has a vision of the Blessed Mother who tells him that he cannot die in vain. After EMTs arrive, Stu is transported to the hospital, where a doctor tells Stu’s mother that he is going to die. Suddenly he begins to stir in the hospital and begins making a miraculous recovery. His father visits and re-establishes contact, though their relationship is still very strained.
Father Stu is a 2022 American biographical drama film written and directed by Rosalind Ross in her directorial debut. The film stars Mark Wahlberg, who also produces, as Father Stuart Long, a boxer-turned-Catholic priest suffering from inclusion body myositis. Father Stu was released in the United States on April 13, 2022, during Holy Week. It received mixed reviews from critics and grossed over $17 million.
Father Stu (2022)
Directed by: Rosalind Ross
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Mel Gibson, Annet Mahendru, acki Weaver, Teresa Ruiz, Cody Fern, Winter Ave Zoli, Alain Uy, Ned Bellamy, Niko Nicotera, Faith Jefferies, Ronnie Gene Blevins
Screenplay by: Rosalind Ross
Production Design by: David Meyer
Cinematography by: Jacques Jouffret
Film Editing by: Jeffrey M. Werner
Costume Design by: Lisa Norcia
Set Decoration by: Ian Anderson, Diego Rodriguez, Lisa Son
Art Direction by: Erika Totham
Music by: Dickon Hinchliffe
MPAA Rating: R for language throughout.
Distributed by: Sony Pictures Releasing
Release Date: April 13, 2022, December 9, 2022 (Re-release)
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