Product: Keeping the Faith (2000)
Rating: 4.0
Sweet movie
Keeping the faith is the story of 3 childhood friends.At the age of 11 Anna leaves the city,her friends Jake and Brian,and moves to another city...Eventually,Jack becomes a rabbi and Brian becomes a priest and they remain best friends.Many years later,they find out that Anna is coming back to New York.And this is the beginning of a very funny and romantic movie.You should not expect a pure comedy out of this one,like "There's something about Mary" or "Meet the parents",otherwise you may be a bit disappointed.There are numerous funny parts,but it has also very clever and important messages about the faith in god,religions and people's understanding of religions.All three actors have good performances in the movie but I especially liked Jenna Elfman.I should also add that while Edward Norton is one of the best actors alive today,I have certain doubts about his directing ability.He is not a great storyteller,and this reflects on the unnecessary length of the movie.On the DVD,I recommend you to watch the deleted scenes because they are very important in my opinion,and should have stayed in the final version.(though it is understandable why they didn't..The movie would be longer than Gladiator).It is a nice movie with an interesting storyline that I think everybody can like.."Trust me,you have not heard this one".