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MPAA Rating: R
Director: Martin Scorsese
Genre: Religious Drama, Hagiography, Drama
Box Office: / $8,373,585
Release Date: August 12, 1988 (USA)
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Summary:
Willem Dafoe plays Jesus Christ in this extraordinarily controversial adaptation of Nikos Kazantzaki's novel. The film depicts a sometimes reluctant, self-doubting Jesus, gradually coming to accept His divinity and the inexorability of His ultimate fate. The much-maligned sex scene with Mary Magdalene (Barbara Hershey) occurs as an hallucination ex... Full Summary >>

Cast:
Willem Dafoe - (Jesus Christ)
Harvey Keitel - (Judas Iscariot)
Barbara Hershey - (Mary Magdalene)
Harry Dean Stanton - (Saul)
Harry Dean Stanton - (Paul)
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Review:
Canceled in 1983, finally made in 1987, and embroiled in controversy, Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis' -The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) is the ultimate labor of love and a sin ... Continue >>

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