Lilies of the Field
Sidney Poitier as the life-loving ex-GI who one day encounters five nuns escaped from beyond the Berlin Wall...
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6/4/1963Runtime
94 minsOverview
An unemployed construction worker heading out west stops at a remote farm in the desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of East European Catholic nuns, headed by the strict mother superior, who believes the man has been sent by God to build a much needed church in the desert.
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ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
$247,000Revenue
$7,000,000Homepage
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A warm-hearted story of unlikely spiritual partnership as a drifting Black construction worker and a determined group of refugee nuns build a chapel together in the Arizona desert. It's a film about grace discovered through labor and grace found in human connection, shot through with humor and genuine affection.
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