Double feature this with Spotlight and you'll really hate the Catholic Church. Priests molest kids and nuns sell them to the highest bidder.As a young woman, Philomena Lee (Judi Dench) was forced to give up the baby she had out of wedlock. Fifty years later, she has never given up hope of finding him. An out of work journalist named Martin (Steve Coogan) hears about her story and agrees to write a human interest piece where he helps her search for her missing child. The journey takes them from a restrictive nunnery in Ireland all the way to Washington, D.C.
It would have been uplifting if it weren't so horribly depressing. And it's not funny. I don't know what kind of crack those reviewers were smoking. Judi Dench is wonderful, of course, but I have never liked Steve Coogan in any role I have seen. He always seems to play a pompous asshole, so maybe I just don't like the typecasting.
I can't in good conscience recommend this movie. If your tastes are anything like mine, you will hate it. And if your tastes are nothing like mine, you're probably not reading this blog.
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