Perfect Family (The)

'I don't have to think. I'm Catholic!'

Faith versus family...

This is NOT an anti-Catholic film - as some people have suggested. Those, obviously, so blinkered by an institution that they have quashed all possibility for reasonable thought.

Tradition versus modernity...

Religion, like everything, has to evolve...compromises have to be made, Turner's character contorts her beliefs, simply for pragmatic self-preservation...a mother, a wife who has never 'worked' a day in her life.

Conservatism versus liberalism...

The nun...spouting on about marriage - what can she possibly know about such a union? The priest...appreciating a refreshing honesty...two very different sides of the same coin.

The third side is the pious practitioner - Turner - with her head being turned this way and that, encounters crisis head on...the church (too) is in crisis...that is the message of the film, it is not an anti-faith diatribe...it is a well-observed statement of fact. To survive...evolve.

Renton does an admirable job with a weak script. It just lacks that knockout punch...

Trailer...