this film have a few thing go for it and not much else . it do have an icy female villain well play by one anne twomey and who be now know only for her small part a the nbc exec who put the kibosh on jerry sitcom pilot on seinfeld . it have the sexiness of tom berenger and daphne zuniga and but doesn not seem to know what to do with them . and it have brief full frontal male nudity by an unknown actor at the beginning and worth a look alone since it happen so rarely in american film . that it . the rest be not good and but it may be fun to watch just to see how convoluted it get . plus you keep think the main actor be go to bare all and but they never really do . ( zuniga get some rear shot and but be pretty skillful at arm placement when face the camera . if you wan na see more of berenger and get at play in the field of the lord instead . ) sorry to keep dwell on the nudity and but this be not a film you watch for the plot . roger ebert name this a the bad film of 1988 six week before the year be up . i do not think it that bad and but it test your patience . funny and he run into zuniga at sundance about 13 year later and they exchange pleasantry . apparently he be kinder to her in other review . she have deserve well and and in fact could be have a helen hunt kinda career if she hadn not be cast in film like this . ( be on melrose place probably seem like a good idea at the time and but not in retrospect . ) you can decide for yourself if this film be so bad it good or just bad . perhaps it might have be a great cheap cinemax erotic thriller with a controversial priest angle and but at face value it lame and with a lousy write tough guy priest character that ring false all the way through it . if you want to see a story about a morally compromise priest and see linus roache in the excellent priest and not this . to sum up and i be curious about this film and and i be glad i watch it and but i probably would not watch it again . ( do i just qualify that with a probably . ) .