The saying goes that miracles are everywhere for those with eyes to see them, which helps to explain why Rita Lopez — the most pious and competitive member of her rural Argentinian community — seems to find one in the first place she looks. Nearing 70, terminally bored of her marriage, and desperate for a heavenly sliver of the recognition that she’s been denied here on Earth, our heroine decides that an old sculpture she uncovers in the musty storeroom of her local church must be the statue of Saint Rita that’s been missing for 30 years, and was assumed to be lost forever. It’s a big deal.
So big, in fact, that Rita (Argentinian icon and “ Wild Tales ” star Mónica Villa) enlists her sweet and doddering husband Norberto (Horacio Marassi) to help smuggle the statue out of the church so she can spruce it up and unveil it to the rest of the village in style, thereby consecrating an eternal bond with her patron namesake. And she might’ve gotten away with it too, if not for the meddling results of her Google search. “How do you know if something is a miracle?,” Rita asks the internet.
“If you have to ask, it’s definitely not a miracle,” the online universe replies. No matter — miracles are what we make of them, and so Rita begins to do what she must to convince her fellow congregants that her statue is the real deal, and not just a cheap replica that she altered to match a blurry photo from the internet. And for a while, Tomás Gómez Bustillo ’s .