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The Crime of Father Amaro   2002         R, 120 min. Genre: Foreign / Drama Director: Carlos Carrera   Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal, Sancho Gracia, Ana Claudia Talancon, Angelica Aragon, Luisa Huertas, Ernesto Gomez Cruz, Gaston Melo, Damian Alcazar, Andres Montiel, Gerardo Moscoso, Pedro Armendariz Jr., Veronica Langer   This film, based on an 1875 Portuguese novel, features Gael Garcia Bernal in the role of a newly ordained priest, Father Amaro, who is sent to a small, Mexican town to assist an elderly priest, Father Benito (Sancho Gracia), and to look into the activities of the town's other priests. It isn't long before Amaro falls in love with 16-year-old Amelia (Ana Claudia Talancon). As if this were not enough, Padre Benito has major drug connections as well as a mistress of his own—Amelia's mother, Sanjuanera (Angelica Aragon).