Keeping the Faith (2000)

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Keeping the Faith (2000)
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When did you watch the movie for the first time?
What was your first impression of it? were you surprised?

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Character List
Rabbi Jacob "Jake" Schram (Ben Stiller)
Father Brian Kilkenney Finn (Edward Norton)
Anna Reilly (Jenna Elfman)
Directed by Edward Norton

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love
faith
religion
themes
traditions
devotion
hard-working
Friendship

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"I work harder than God!
If he had hired me, he would have made the world by Thursday."
- Anna Reilly

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"Sometimes we don't see certain things
until we're ready to see them in a certain way."
- Father Brian Kilkenney Finn

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"it's very important to understand the difference between religion
and faith. Because faith is not about having the right answers.
Faith is a feeling. Faith is a hunch, really.
It's a hunch that there is something bigger connecting it all...
connecting us all together. And that feeling, that hunch, is God."
- Father Brian Kilkenney Finn

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"- Jews want their rabbis to be the kind of Jews
they don't have the time to be.
- Yeah, and Catholics want their priests to be the kind of Catholics
they don't have the discipline to be."
- Rabbi Jacob "Jake" Schram, Father Brian Kilkenney Finn

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"You don't understand. I have a relationship with my phone,
we have a chemistry together, I can't explain it."
- Anna Reilly

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Vocabulary
devotion (n)- loyalty and love or care for someone or something
hire (v) - to employ someone or pay someone to do a particular job
certain (adj) - having no doubt or knowing exactly that something is true, or known to be true,
correct, exact, or effective
hunch (n) - an idea that is based on feeling and for which there is no proof

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Vocabulary
rabbi (n) - a religious leader and teacher in the Jewish religion /’ræb.ai/
priest (n) - a person, usually a man, who has been trained to perform religious duties in the Christian
Church, especially the Roman Catholic Church, or a person with particular duties in some other
religions
have a chemistry (v) - In the context of relationships, chemistry is a quality that exists when two
people understand and are attracted to each other

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★ favourite scene
★ favourite character
★ favourite quote

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The end
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