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The Pope's Toilet

2007 · 1h 30m · TV-MA Comedy, Drama
Directed by César Charlone

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Overview

In 1998, a small South American village is in a flurry over the Pope's upcoming visit for the business opportunities that it will provide. While most of the residents plan to sell food at the parade, a smuggler family man decides to build a pay toilet.

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Critics on Rotten Tomatoes

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All reviews
88%
Tomatometer
Fresh

The cast of pros and amateurs provides realistic performances, and co-director Charlone's lensing makes beautiful use of the rough landscape in a movie even the pope would enjoy.

V.A. Musetto, New York Post
Fresh

Watch it now, and you'll be surprised how such a little movie can cut so deeply to the bone.

David Fear, Time Out New York
Fresh

The Pope's Toilet cloaks religious critique in the scrappy tempo of irremediable poverty and irrepressible enterprise.

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Fresh

The Pope's Toilet entertains, even while it illustrates how the impoverished can adjust their religious ideals out of desperation.

Aaron Hillis, Village Voice
Rotten

The movie isn't as bad as I feared, but I can't give it much of an endorsement, either.

Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle

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