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Lilies of the Field
Comedy, Drama
An unemployed construction worker heading out west stops at a remote farm in the desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of East European Catholic nuns, headed by the strict mother superior, who believes the man has been sent by God to build a much needed church in the desert.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy humane, quietly comic dramas about unlikely cooperation, spiritual conviction, and community built through practical work.
- Tone
- warm, uplifting, sentimental
- Payoff
- comfort, inspiration
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- gentle
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- faith, community, dignity, racial prejudice, humanitarian work
- Setting
- mid-twentieth-century, remote desert farm and fledgling religious community
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