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Dogma is a 1999 American fantasy comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith, who also stars with Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, George Carlin, Linda Fiorentino, Janeane Garofalo, Chris Rock, Jason Lee, Salma Hayek, Bud Cort, Alan Rickman, Alanis Morissette in her feature film debut, and Jason Mewes. It is the fourth film in Smith's View ...
- $44 million
- Howard Shore
- $10 million
- Scott Mosier
Apr 2, 2024 · It’s a film made by a believer who takes religion seriously enough to bother to laugh at it. Despite the protests and headlines, Dogma did quite well: with a budget of $10 million, the film...
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Nov 12, 1999 · For a long time, any movie dealing with religion had to be run past Hollywood's resident monsignors, ministers and rabbis for approval (the habits of actual orders of nuns could not even be portrayed, which led to great ingenuity in the costume department).
Apr 29, 2024 · Kevin Smith was raised Catholic, and still identified as Catholic through the writing, making, and release of the film. This is important to note because all the religious aspects come from a place of familiarity, and although the film has plenty of criticism for religion, it clearly comes from a place of love.
- Michael Suarez
Nov 12, 1999 · Edit page. Dogma: Directed by Kevin Smith. With Bud Cort, Barret Hackney, Jared Pfennigwerth, Kitao Sakurai. An abortion clinic worker with a special heritage is called upon to save the existence of humanity from being negated by two renegade angels trying to exploit a loop-hole and reenter Heaven.
- Kevin Smith
- 2 min
Nov 29, 2019 · With a stellar cast of View Askew alums and major movie stars, the film follows a pair of fallen angels, Bartleby (Ben Affleck) and Loki (Matt Damon), as they become aware of a loophole in...
In his review of Dogma, Roger Ebert wrote that the film "takes Catholic theology absolutely literally, and in such detail that non-Catholics may need to be issued Catechisms on their way into the theater (not everybody knows what a plenary indulgence is)."
