Entertaining Angels
by Michael Brindley
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Actor: Brian Keith, Heather Graham, Martin Sheen, Moira KellyDirector: Michael Brindley
Brand: Vision Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
Running Time: 111 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1996-06-05
Studio: Vision Video
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Movie Review: Dorothy Day
Summary: 5 Stars
For years I have had only a vague knowledge of Dorothy Day. I knew that she had founded something called "The Catholic Worker" and that in her time she was considered by the likes of J. Edgar Hoover to be a dangerous radical. Yet she was always only a footnote in someone else's biography. Last week in a used book store at the Library in Cornwall, NY, I happened accross a copy of By Little and By Little: The Selected Writings of Dorothy Day. After reading it, a whole new world opened up for me and I had to explore everything connected with this great woman and her beautiful life. Naturally, I purchased this film.
Entertaining Angels, produced by Paulist Films, is as fine a film biography of Dorothy as one could hope for. Moira Kelly, a great actress, gives a sensitive, sympathetic performance in the title role. You may remember her portrayal of Oona O'Neill, Charlie Chaplin's fourth wife in the film "Chaplin". Martin Sheen is also great as Peter Maurin, Dorothy's friend and spiritual mentor.
The film tells the story of Dorothy's evolution from political radical to her conversion to catholicism and the hardships and joy she experienced on the journey. Dorothy Day was a "true Christian", the personification of that very overused and abused term. She not only worked tirelessly for the poor and unloved, she lived among them and considered herself to be one of them.
When one puts her in juxtaposition with some of today's "men of Christ": the Jerry Falwells and the Pat Robertsons - praying on TV for tax relief for the richest two percent or calling for the assassination of a sovergn leader of another nation - one wants to weep. Jesus wept.
A beautiful film.
Tom Degan
Goshen, NY
Summary of Entertaining Angels
Like many people, Dorothy Day (1897-1980) just wanted to find fulfillment in her life. Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story shows how she found it in serving New York s poor and being a voice for the voiceless. The film portrays twenty years in Day s life, during which she works as a Marxist journalist, leads a less than virtuous life, then undergoes a religious transformation that changes her life forever. The film shows Dorothy s struggle as she establishes the Catholic Worker movement and commits herself to a lifetime of peacemaking, battling for justice, and hands-on service to the poor. Run Time: 111 minutes Format: 1 disk, DVDStudio: Vision VideoISBN: 7-27985-00301-6Similar DVD Movies
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