<Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $3.8 million </Td> </Tr> <P> First Reformed is a 2017 American drama film written and directed by Paul Schrader . It stars Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried, and Cedric the Entertainer, and follows a Protestant minister faced with questions of faith and morality while serving as pastor of a dwindling historical church . </P> <P> The film was screened in the main competition section of the 74th Venice International Film Festival on August 31, 2017, and was released in the United States on May 18, 2018, by A24 . </P> <P> Reverend Ernst Toller of the First Reformed church in Snowbridge, New York is writing down his thoughts in a journal for a year, after which he intends to destroy it . First Reformed, a 250 - year - old Dutch Reformed Church, faces dwindling attendance but receives support from a nearby megachurch, Abundant Life, which owns the historical landmark, which had been a stop on the Underground Railroad . </P>

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