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Letters to Father Jacob

2009 · 1h 14m · N/A Drama
Directed by Klaus Härö

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With few options, newly pardoned convict Leila agrees to work as an assistant to a blind pastor. Father Jacob spends his days answering the letters of the needy, which Leila finds pointless. But when the letters stop, the pastor is devastated and Leila finds herself cast in a new role.

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All reviews
67%
Tomatometer
Fresh

It's a story of faith expressed with simple grace and the small deeds of a pardoned sinner still searching for forgiveness. It is like a minimalist stage play -- three acts, two characters, quietly redemptive.

Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times
Fresh

There's a sparse elegance to writer-director Klaus Haro's Letters to Father Jacob, a lean, engrossing character study about loneliness, redemption and the power of faith.

Ernest Hardy, L.A. Weekly
Rotten

Transforms a picture-postcard location and odd-couple narrative into a pretty, and pretty predictable, snooze.

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Fresh

Letters could be dismissed as a soap opera, but that would be unfair to this beautiful work.

V.A. Musetto, New York Post
Rotten

There's only one thing worse than a leaden moral fable that tackles issues of forgiveness with sledgehammer contrivances, and that's one that attempts to mask its manipulative corniness with an air of trumped-up gravity.

Nick Schager, Time Out New York

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