After 28-Year-Journey, Scorsese's Faith Movie 'Silence' Arrives

After 28 years of false starts, director Martin Scorsese has finally brought a passion project about faith and religion to the big screen with “Silence.” Based on the acclaimed 1966 novel of the same name by late Japanese writer Shusaku Endo, the drama tells the story of two Portuguese Jesuit missionaries, played by Adam Driver and Andrew Garfield, who travel to Japan in the 17th century to search for their missing mentor, portrayed by Liam Neeson. There, in an era when Christians were...

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