The Order

The Sin Eater

United States, Germany

2003

102 Min

Color

1.85:1

English

Currently 2.0/5 Stars.
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EXEC Thomas M. Hammel, Michael Kühn

PROD Brian Helgeland, Craig Baumgarten, Giovanni Lovatelli

CAST Heath Ledger, Shannyn Sossamon, Benno Fürmann, Mark Addy, Peter Weller, Francesco Carnelutti, Mattia Sbragia, Mirko Casaburo, Giulia Lombardi, Richard Bremmer, Cristina Maccà, Paola Emilia Villa, Rosalinda Celentano, Alessandra Costanzo, Paolo Lorimer, Davide Odore, John Karlsen, Fabrizio Lozzi, David Ambrosi, Adam Levy, Bruno Bilotta, Leagh Conwell, John Schwab, Jon Laurimore, Steve Toussaint, James Greene, Luigi Basagaluppi, Michele Melega, Emanuele Carucci Viterbi, Richard Leaf, Clive Riche, Alex Van Damme, Barbara Pastrovich

PROD DES Miljen Kreka Kljakovic

SOUND Tracy Bolt, Pierre-Yves Bruneel

Synopsis

Alex Bernier (Ledger) is a member of an arcane order of priests known as Carolingians. When the head of the order dies, Alex is sent to Rome to investigate mysterious circumstances surrounding the death. The body bears strange marks on the chest which may or may not be the sign of a Sin Eater (Furmann), a renegade who offers absolution, last rites and therefore a path to heaven outside the jurisdiction of the church. Alex enlists the aid of his old comrade Father Thomas (Addy) and of a troubled artist (Sossamon) upon whom he once performed an exorcism. He soon finds himself plunged into a mystery only to find himself at the heart of it. —IMDb

Director

Brian Helgeland

Brian Thomas Helgeland (born January 17, 1961) is an American screenwriter, film producer and director. He is most known for writing the screenplays for L.A. Confidential (for which he received an Academy Award), Mystic River, and A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master.

Helgeland was born in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of Norwegian-born parents Karin and Thomas.His surname is Norwegian, named after a landscape in Northern Norway. A graduate of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, he received his undergraduate degree at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

In 1998, Helgeland won both an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (for L.A. Confidential) and a Razzie (for The Postman) in the same year. Only one person had achieved the dubious feat before (Alan Menken in 1993), and only one other (Sandra Bullock in 2010) has achieved it since. He accepted the Razzie and became only the fourth person in its history to be personally presented with the… read more

Brian Thomas Helgeland (born January 17, 1961) is an American screenwriter, film producer and director. He is most known for writing the screenplays for L.A. Confidential (for which he received an Academy Award), Mystic River, and A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master.

Helgeland was born in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of Norwegian-born parents Karin and Thomas.His surname is Norwegian, named after a landscape in Northern Norway. A graduate of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, he received his undergraduate degree at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

In 1998, Helgeland won both an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (for L.A. Confidential) and a Razzie (for The Postman) in the same year. Only one person had achieved the dubious feat before (Alan Menken in 1993), and only one other (Sandra Bullock in 2010) has achieved it since. He accepted the Razzie and became only the fourth person in its history to be personally presented with the statuette.

Helgeland wrote and directed the films A Knight’s Tale (2001) and The Order (2003). He has worked with director Clint Eastwood twice, in 2002 on Blood Work, and in 2003 on Mystic River, for which he was Oscar nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay, and has also written an as of yet unproduced adaptation of Moby-Dick. In 2004, Helgeland also co-wrote the screenplay for the major motion picture The Bourne Supremacy, for which he was uncredited. In early 2008, Helgeland was attached to shape the script of the thriller Green Zone after screenwriter Tom Stoppard had to drop out, once again collaborating with director Paul Greengrass, whom he worked with on The Bourne Supremacy, as well as reuniting with actor Matt Damon, who played the Bourne trilogy’s main protagonist, Jason Bourne. Helgeland also wrote the remake of The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, starring Denzel Washington and John Travolta. The film was released on June 12, 2009. In 2009, director Richard Donner mentioned a second collaboration with writer Helgeland and actor Mel Gibson on an unnamed project, having previously all worked together on the 1997 thriller Conspiracy Theory. —Wikipedia

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