After surviving a motorcycle accident, a former boxer and long-time agnostic starts to wonder if he can use his second chance to help others, leading to the surprising realization that he's meant to be a Catholic priest.
It's Wahlberg's ability to have us believe his foul-mouthed crusader might relate to the stained masses that makes a pivotal difference in Stu's very Catholic conversion.
With Mel Gibson turning a fabulous supporting performance as Stu’s father and Jackie Weaver as his mother, ‘Father Stu’ delivers an uplifting yet neither patronising nor pious experience.