The Proposition (1998)

Kenneth Branagh: Michael

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• Father Michael McKinnon : You're probably the one person in the world Arthur Barret respects enough to fear, loves enough to kill for.

• Father Michael McKinnon : St. Jude's parish was my first assignment. But it was my last choice. I didn't want to go there. It was a rich parish with good living quarters and a wealth of opportunity. All my friends in seminary envied me... but big religion and big money was the last thing I wanted. But my father's influence in the Church quickly squelched all that... and landed me in Boston. This was my father's way of keeping tabs on me... keeping his hand in the game of controlling my life. They say all is fair in love and war. I suppose this was his way of getting even with me... for becoming a priest.

• Father Michael McKinnon : As a Catholic Priest my orientation as to the definition of bonafide miracle.. has always been: Divine intervention... plus a little more. So in this instance, a timely flat tire might raise a few superstitious eyebrows even for skeptics it's hardly food for thought for those of us professionally trained to recognize the hand of God at work. But when in the pursuit of miracles, timing is everything. And it was beginning to look as if the hand of God was attached... to a damn good wristwatch.