Year			2004
Country			United Kingdom / Spain
Genre			Criminal drama
Parents			Violence, nudity, sexual content
Length			1:52
Director			Paul McGuigan
Writer			Mark Mills
Company			Paramount Pictures
Starring			Paul Bettany Marián Aguilera Trevor Steedman Simon Mc Burney Tom Hardy Show more... Paul Bettany Marián Aguilera Trevor Steedman Simon Mc Burney Tom Hardy Brian Cox Willem Dafoe Gina Mc Kee Stuart Wells Vincent Cassel Elvira Mínguez Richard Durden Ewen Bremner Mark Benton Hamish Mc Coll

The Reckoning is a murder mystery set in the Middle Ages yet steeped in moral dilemmas about the power of art, the temptations of evil and the search for justice that continue to haunt us in modern times. On the run in the dead of winter, a fugitive priest named Nicholas (Paul Bettany), joins with a troupe of traveling actors led by the charismatic Martin (Willem Dafoe). Lost in the woods, the group arrives at a village, where the actors encounter a woman named Martha being sentenced to death for the murder of a young boy. Under Martin's leadership, the actors defy tradition, discarding their usual Biblical plays, and instead, decide to stage a bold performance based on the real-life crime, turning entertainment into persuasion.