Saint Ralph opens in a confession booth, and the litany of adolescent sins confessed tells us succinctly—and humorously—that 14-year-old Catholic schoolboy Ralph Walker (newcomer Adam Butcher) is ...

It's the 1953-54 school year at St. Magnus Catholic School in Hamilton, Ontario. 14-year-old Ralph Walker is in many ways a typical teenager. He is experimenting with smoking and openly preoccupied ...

If you have a low tolerance for inspirational sports movies, you might want to remove half a star (or more) from that three-star rating. Still, even when it’s pushing the limits of shameless ...

“Saint Ralph” is an amiable sentimental fantasy, joining running, religion and a boy with a whole lot of problems into an earnest production that entertains even as it milks some of its situations for ...

Ralph Walker needs a miracle. His dad is a dead war hero. His mom is in a coma, dying. Ralph sneaks about, living alone at home, forging notes to his Catholic school in order to stay enrolled, even ...

For Ralph Walker, as it is with all of us here, miracles come in an assortment of sizes.Not getting picked on by the more aggressive kids at St. Magnuson’s, the Catholic school in the industrial ...

Instead, I'm going to tell you why you should go see this movie. It's stunning in its simplicity. It's an inspiring, uplifting, surprising piece of work. And you should go see it, assuming, of course, ...

There are two Saint Ralphs in the Catholic hagiography: Ralph of Bourges, a ninth-century French abbot, and Ralph Crockett, a 16th-century English martyr. Compared to Saints Peter and Aquinas, the ...

Even though it sprints along a well-trod path through familiar territory, "Saint Ralph" remains compelling as it follows the misadventures of a young long-distance runner in Hamilton, Ontario during ...

Starring Adam Butcher and Campbell Scott. Rated PG. Aside from the reassuring presences of Campbell Scott, as the faith-troubled Father Hibbert, and Gordon Pinsent, as autocratic schoolmaster Father ...

Saint Ralph is the story of Ralph Walker, a precocious Catholic schoolboy living in Canada in the early 1950s. Blessed with an Eddie Haskell eagerness and plagued by a cruel libido, he’s willing, at ...