Film review: St Vincent - Bill Murray and Jaeden Lieberher shine
None of the many Catholic saints named Vincent — including St Vincent de Paul, dubbed the "great apostle of charity", and the patron saint of Lisbon and Valencia, Vincent of Saragossa — are the subject of this feel-good comedy with a heart of gold.
Starring: Bill Murray, Jaeden Lieberher, Melissa McCarthy, Naomi Watts
Director: Theodore Melfi
Category: IIA
None of the many Catholic saints named Vincent — including St Vincent de Paul, dubbed the "great apostle of charity", and the patron saint of Lisbon and Valencia, Vincent of Saragossa — are the subject of this feel-good comedy with a heart of gold.
Instead, the film's protagonist is a curmudgeonly old man to whom few people would look as a prime candidate for beatification — and who, in the first few minutes of the movie, is shown stealing from a Chinatown grocer, having sex with a pregnant prostitute (Naomi Watts) and driving while inebriated.
Vincent MacKenna (Bill Murray) is an ornery Vietnam war veteran gone to seed, whose bank account has a negative balance. He owes money to a loan shark (Terrence Howard) and the expensive nursing home where his Alzheimer's-afflicted wife Sandy (Donna Mitchell) has resided for several years.
