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Bookmark this pageEntertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story (1996)
Director: Michael Ray Rhodes
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From Time Out Film Guide
An evangelical biography of the firebrand reporter, feminist and philanthropist Dorothy Day (Kelly, persuasive): in 1933, following her conversion, she co-founded The Catholic Worker with Peter Maurin (Sheen), an eccentric philosopher. The film opens in Greenwich Village, 1917, where Dorothy boozes with anarchists, communists and Eugene O'Neill, and argues journalistic priorities at The Call. But as the opening credit ('A Paulist Picture') and the end-list of 'thank-yous' (including the Conrad Hilton Foundation) testify, the makers are more interested in her later mission to bring Christ into the lives of the poorest and most dejected of New York's Lower East Side. The first hour, 1917-33, rushes through too much placard-waving social history, rendered in nicely composed but familiar umbra washes. The second deals at tedious length with Day's conflicting commitment to the poor, her daughter and the paper.Author: WH
Cast & crew
Director: Michael Ray Rhodes
Producer: Ellwood Kieser
Cast: Moira Kelly, Heather Graham, Melinda Dillon, Lenny Von Dohlen, Martin Sheen, Brian Keith full cast
Duration: 111 mins
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