The Apostle

(Universal)

In Robert Duvall's accomplished second film he plays a Pentecostal preacher who's also a drinker, a spouse abuser, and a womanizer. After his wife (Farrah Fawcett) takes up with a younger minister, he re-emerges in the Louisiana backwater of Bayou Boutte, his name changed to the enigmatic "the Apostle E.F"; and Duvall's story becomes an alternately genial and irreverent Christian allegory in a setting that's part Forrest Gump, part Flannery O'Connor. Duvall was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar.