Word: vic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gospel According to Vic...
...With Vic. Writer/director Charles Gormley follows the recipe of fellow Scotsman Bill Forsyth, whose warm, mild comedies Local Hero and Gregory's Girl have been well-received in the United States. His recipe: take a potentially meaty theme, don't overwork it and sour the comedy, add a bunch of offbeat characters and sprinkle in some quirky but subtle sight-gags and one-liners. Gently stir the mixture and simmer over low heat, and serve in a picturesque Scottish background...
...reluctant miracle worker who doesn't believe in miracles. Fortunately Conti, a veteran of many a similar off-the-wall role, proves up to the task. His wry facial expressions, his bedraggled stray-dog appearance and his dry, brittle voice seem appropriate for the exasperated yet ever-jocular Vic...
...Poor Vic is hounded on all sides, by his fellow teachers and administrators at Glasgow's Blessed Edith Semple school, by the media, by priests who would like to credit his miracles to the intervention of the school's namesake in order to have her declared a saint (she already has one miracle to her credit; she needs two more for sainthood), by other priests who would like to dismiss his miracles because he is an atheist and by doctors who want to examine his remarkable recuperative abilities. Vic falls off a 40-foot building and suffers only cuts...
Everyone wants a piece of Vic, who only wants to teach kids with his own methods, which are so effective that they, too, are considered miraculous of the new music teacher, Ruth Chancellor (Helen Mirren...