Keeping the Faith is a 2000 American romantic comedy film, written by Stuart Blumberg and directed by Edward Norton. This film was released by Touchstone Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment, in association with Triple Threat Talent on April 14, 2000. The film is Norton's directorial debut and was dedicated to his late mother, Robin Norton. The film had a budget of $29 million. The film begins with a drunken and downtrodden Catholic priest stumbling aimlessly around town while "Please Call Me Baby", performed by Tom Waits, plays, then telling his story to a sympathetic bartender . Father Brian... Finn has been dedicated to his calling since he was a child and now shares the duties of a New York parish with an older priest, Fr. Havel . Rabbi Jacob "Jake" Schram , best friends with Brian since childhood, is the youngest rabbi at his Reform synagogue; his lack of effort to find a wife often results in his mother and other women of his congregation setting him up on blind dates, much to his dismay.
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| Release date: | April 5, 2000 |
| Directed by: | Edward Norton |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 128 Minutes |
| Producer: | Stuart Blumberg, Edward Norton, Hawk Koch, Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber, Jonathan Glickman |
| Editor: | Malcolm Campbell |
| Music by: | Elmer Bernstein |
| Cinematography: | Anastas N. Michos |
| Screenplay by: | Stuart Blumberg |
| Estimated budget: | $29,000,000 |
| Genre: | Comedy |