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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Showtime Ent.
Salesrank: 31814
Released: January 24, 2006 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Based on the compelling book this true story focuses on the sexual abuse scandal & cover-up. The story unfolds in early 2002: when a group of reporters blew open the sexual abuse scandal surrounding father john j geoghan & cardinal bernard law who failed to stop the sexual abuse in his diocese. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/16/2007 Starring: Christopher Plummer Ted Danson Run time: 129 minutes Rating: R
Our Fathers Reviews:
Our Fathers 
2008-04-05 - This was a well performed, carefully researched movie about an event in our not too distant past in an area very close to where I live.
Our Fathers (DVD review) 
2008-03-03 - Our Fathers is a ok movie to watch. Not so sure if this movie will be very popular with the general audience though.
A powerful and moving film
2007-06-24 - I have watched this film again and again. It is SO powerful! It is also heart-rending and deeply moving. Last year, I wrote to the Irish television network RTE asking them to screen it - they never replied. This film should be compulsory viewing for all priests and bishops.
Excellent service
2007-01-05 - DVD like new, arrived before anticipated date. One of the greatest DVD's of 2006.
Difficult to watch, but very even-handed...
2006-03-14 - I applaud the deft handling of this very painful subject matter. Every player in this was portrayed sympathetically and fairly, even Law himself. The acting was superb, the direction outstanding.
I have to single out Brian Dennehey's portrayal of Fr. Dominic Spagnalia, a priest who spoke out, loudly and publicly, against the crimes against the children and the coverup of his own superiors. Of course, the church couldn't let that go. First they had him accused of of the same (all falsely); his own parish knew better and supported him fervently. So then they had him removed when they found out that years ago, during a time when he had left the priesthood, he'd had a 5-year affair with a man. Doesn't matter that it was between two consenting adults, they were looking for dirt and the Catholic churc hatefully and vengefully condemned him for this. Such is "justice" and "compassion" in the church.
I highly recommend this movie as an eye-opener to the good ol' boys club known as the Catholic Church. If not for a few lawyers like Martin Garabedian, a few reporters like the Boston Globe task team, a few brave victims like the Birmingham Boys, this would still be happening behind the hypocritcal sachristy and secret sanctity known as the Catholic priesthood.
