Fox Searchlight has acquired U.S. rights and select international territories to writer-director John Michael McDonagh’s comedic drama “Calvary,” the distributor announced Tuesday along with an unspecifiedย 2014 release date.
Brendan Gleeson stars as Father James, a good priest who is faced with troubling circumstances when a mysterious member of his parish threatens to kill him. Although he continues to comfort his own fragile daughter (Kelly Reilly) and reach out to help members of his church with their various scurrilous moral – and often comic – problems, he feels sinister forces closing in, and begins to wonder if he will have the courage to face his own personal Calvary.