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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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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A feel-good classic about unlikely bonds forming in the desert. It's a gentle, humorous story of faith and cooperation, proving that good things can grow in the most unexpected places.
upliftingheartwarmingcomedicearneststeadyclassic Hollywoodcharacter-drivenlight dramafaithcommunityovercoming prejudicedivine intervention
based on novel or booknunarizonahomelessnessfarm lifechapelracismdesertconstruction worker
