Stigmata is a 1999 supernatural horror film directed by Rupert Wainwright and starring Patricia Arquette as a hairdresser from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who is afflicted with the stigmata after acquiring a rosary formerly owned by a deceased Italian priest who himself suffered from the phenomena. Gabriel Byrne plays a Vatican official who investigates her case, and Jonathan Pryce plays a corrupt Catholic Church official. The film opens in the Brazilian village of Belo Quinto, with Father Andrew Kiernan , a former scientist and ordained Jesuit priest who investigates supposed miracles,... examining a statue of the Virgin of Guadalupe weeping blood at the funeral of Father Paulo Alameida . While Andrew is collecting evidence, a young boy steals the rosary from the father's hand, and later sells it to a woman in a marketplace, who sends it to her daughter Frankie Paige living in Pittsburgh. Shortly after, Frankie is attacked while bathing and receives two deep wounds on her wrists, and as the wounds are treated at the hospital the doctors cannot find the cause beyond that they are puncture wounds and go all the way through the wrist.
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| Release date: | September 10, 1999 |
| Directed by: | Rupert Wainwright |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 109 Minutes |
| Producer: | Frank Mancuso Jr. |
| Editor: | Michael R. Miller, Michael J. Duthie |
| Music by: | Billy Corgan, Elia Cmiral |
| Cinematography: | Jeffrey L. Kimball |
| Screenplay by: | Tom Lazarus, Rick Ramage |
| Estimated budget: | $29,000,000 |
| Genre: | Thriller |