Saving Grace is a 1998 film

1998 in film

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 produced in New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 based on a play by Duncan Sarkies

Duncan Sarkies

Duncan Sarkies is a New Zealand screenwriter, playwright, novelist, stand-up comic and short story writer.Sarkies grew up in the South Island city of Dunedin and is the brother of Robert Sarkies a New Zealand film director who is also a scriptwriter...

. It was directed by Costa Botes

Costa Botes

Costa Botes is a New Zealand writer, director and cinematographer.-Movie-making career:Botes is best known in New Zealand for Forgotten Silver , a documentary he co-wrote and co-directed with Peter Jackson...

 and stars Kirsty Hamilton and Jim Moriarty

Jim Moriarty

Jim Moriarty is an actor and theatre director in New Zealand who has worked on stage and the screen since the 1970s. His work has toured nationally and internationally...

. In it, unemployed teenager Grace Cuthberston meets the mysterious Gerald Hutchinson; the two eventually become lovers. Gerald then claims to be Christ

Christ

Christ is the English term for the Greek meaning "the anointed one". It is a translation of the Hebrew , usually transliterated into English as Messiah or Mashiach...

, and Grace has to determine whether he is mad and if there is a reason for the coincidences and "miracles" that seem to be happening.