Product: Keeping the Faith (2000)
Rating: 3.0
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I love the beginning of this movie more than any other part. Not only is it the funniest, but it's also the part with the most truth to it. Both the rabbi and the priest challenge their congregation to examine what real faith means instead of carrying along with their banal religions. I really admire anybody who shakes things up the way they do in the beginning of the movie; any Christian who complains about that method has forgotten something very important about Christ: he caused lots of trouble for the Pharisees so set in their formulaic rules that they'd forgotten what authentic faith is about. Although I've never been a Ben Stiller fan, he does an alright job in this movie although I don't like his character as much as the priest. Rabbi Jake and Anna basically fall in lust, not love, but they're used synonymously in our culture. I had a hard time believing that Ben Stiller's character would have so easily jumped into a lust-based relationship and be okay with that as a man of God. Overall I liked a lot of aspects of this movie, but the love story frankly isn't romantic to me.