More is not a fanatic in search of a stake. He is a lawyer who uses every honest silence the law allows, because he wants to live and stay with his family. The film honors that wish. Then the oath asks for his mind, not only his quiet, and he will not give it. Cromwell is the modern man: results, irritation at a scruple, a smile. Alice and Margaret are the cost. A conscience that forgets it has a household is not yet More's.

Older teens and adults. It is talk, and the talk is the action. If a room you are in is demanding statements, this is the film.