Thus, Kristen Connolly's sympathetic Dana -- not quite a virgin, but clearly the designated "good girl" -- is something more than just the sum of her body parts (even if she is upstaged by a dismembered arm in one scene), and Fran Kranz's witty pot-head conspiracy theorist is such an engaging personality the movie risks deflating without him.

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She deliberately sets aside the question of whether or not a 14-year-old peasant girl called Bernadette Soubirous did in fact see the Virgin Mary near a grotto outside Lourdes on 18 occasions between February and July 1858.

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The action against the man involved a variety of legal and ethical allegations, including that he rejected the girl after he found out, he says, that she wasn't a virgin.

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