fiction.wikisort.org - MovieDeliver Us from Evil is a 2006 American documentary film that explores the life of Irish Catholic priest Oliver O'Grady, who admitted to having molested and raped approximately 25 children in Northern California from the late 1970s through the early 1990s.[1] Written and directed by Amy J. Berg, it won the Best Documentary Award at the 2006 Los Angeles Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, though it lost to An Inconvenient Truth.[2] The title of the film refers to a line in the Lord's Prayer.
2006 American film
Deliver Us from Evil |
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Directed by | Amy J. Berg |
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Written by | Amy J. Berg |
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Produced by | Amy J. Berg Matthew Cooke Frank Donner Hermass Lassalle |
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Starring | Ann, Maria & Bob Jyono Nancy Sloan Adam, Becky & Phil M. Thomas Doyle Patrick Wall John Manly Jeff Anderson Dr. Mary Gail Frawley-O'Dea Case & Jane Degroot Oliver O'Grady |
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Cinematography | Jacob Kusk Jens Schlosser |
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Edited by | Matthew Cooke |
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Music by | Joseph Arthur Mick Harvey |
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Production company | Disarming Films |
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Distributed by | Lionsgate |
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Release date |
- October 13, 2006 (2006-10-13)
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Running time | 101 minutes |
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Country | United States |
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Language | English |
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Box office | $327,205 |
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Synopsis
The film chronicles O'Grady's years as a priest in Northern California, where he committed his crimes. After being convicted of child molestation in 1993 and serving seven years in prison, he was deported to his native Ireland, where Berg interviewed him in 2005. Additionally, the film presents trial documents, videotaped depositions with O'Grady and other members of the Los Angeles Archdiocese (including Monsignor Cain and Roger Mahony), and interviews with survivors of O'Grady's abuse, activists, theologians, psychologists, and lawyers. Taken together, the material suggests that Church officials were aware of O'Grady's crimes many years before his conviction, but took steps to conceal them to protect him and the Church.[3][4]
Reception
The film was well-received by critics. It earned a 100 percent "Fresh" critics rating from Rotten Tomatoes based on 72 reviews, with a weighted average of 8.36/10, and is currently ranked 31st among the site's highest rated documentaries of all time.[5] The site's consensus reads: "Deliver Us from Evil is a superb documentary and a searing look at an institution protecting its leaders at the expense of its followers. A profoundly disturbing chronicle of a wolf in sheep's clothing, the film builds a clear-eyed case against pedophile priest Oliver O'Grady, and the Catholic bureaucracy that protected him. The recollections of O'Grady's victims are nothing short of shocking and heartbreaking."[6] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 86 out of 100, based on 23 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[7]
The Irish Independent criticized Berg for having filmed children in Ireland without their knowledge or that of their families.[8]
Aftermath
After the documentary was shown on Dutch national TV in April 2010, members of a parish in Schiedam recognized O'Grady as having been an active volunteer in the parish until January 2010. They had known nothing about his background. He had also been active in the Netherlands as an organizer of children's parties.[9]
See also
- Catholic Church sexual abuse cases
- Catholic Church sex abuse cases in the United States
- Roger Mahony's role in covering up sexual abuse in the Los Angeles Archdiocese
- Twist of Faith (2005), an HBO documentary film about abuse in the Catholic Church
- Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (2012), another HBO documentary
- Holy Water-Gate, a 2004 documentary
- Secrets of the Vatican, a 2014 documentary
- Sex Crimes and the Vatican, a 2006 BBC documentary
- Spotlight, a 2015 film about The Boston Globe's 2001 investigation into cases of child sex abuse in the Boston area by Catholic priests[10]
- List of films with a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, a film review aggregator website
References
- Guccione, Jean (May 11, 2005). "A Glimpse at the Mind of a Pedophile". Los Angeles Times.
- "The New York Times: Deliver Us from Evil". The New York Times. 2008. Archived from the original on September 5, 2008. Retrieved November 23, 2008.
- Thomson, Desson (November 10, 2006). "An Unassuming Face of 'Evil'". The Washington Post.
- Stein, Ruthe (October 27, 2006). "The bitter wake of a pedophile protected by the church". San Francisco Chronicle.
- "Rotten Tomatoes' Best Documentary Movies". Rotten Tomatoes.
- "Deliver Us From Evil". Rotten Tomatoes.
- "Deliver Us from Evil". Metacritic.
- Hickey, Walshe. "Uproar as school footage used in film on pedophile". Archived from the original on November 5, 2015. Retrieved October 13, 2006.
- "Convicted Irish priest active in the Netherlands". NRC Handelsblad. 27 April 2010. Archived from the original on April 30, 2010. Retrieved 27 April 2010.
- Lombardi, Kristen (October 31 – November 6, 2003). "Phil Saviano Founder of the local Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests". Boston Phoenix. Archived from the original on October 10, 2015. Retrieved March 4, 2016.
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Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Documentary Film |
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New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Non-Fiction Film |
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By clerics | Cardinals |
- Hans Hermann Groër (1998)
- Stanisław Dziwisz (1998)
- Bernard Francis Law (2002)
- Angelo Sodano (2010)
- Keith O'Brien (2015)
- Edward Egan (2018)
- Theodore McCarrick (2019)
- Ricardo Ezzati (2019)
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Bishops |
- Joseph Keith Symons (1998)
- Anthony O'Connell (2002)
- John Charles McQuaid (2009)
- Georg Müller (2009)
- Raymond Lahey (2012)
- Józef Wesołowski (2013)
- Marco Órdenes Fernández (2018)
- Francisco José Cox (2018)
- Gonzalo Duarte García de Cortázar (2018)
- Cristián Caro Cordero (2018)
- Franco Mulakkal (2018)
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- Roman Curia
- Crimen sollicitationis (1962)
- The Role of the Church in the Causation, Treatment and Prevention of the Crisis in the Priesthood (1971)
- Instruction Concerning the Criteria for the Discernment of Vocations (2005)
- Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors (2014)
- Vatican sexual abuse summit (2019)
- Vos estis lux mundi [2019]
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US Conference of Catholic Bishops |
- Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People (2002)
- John Jay Report (2004)
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- Settlements and bankruptcies (since 1994)
- Virtus (1998)
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- Parish transfers of abusive Catholic priests (c. 1956–2011)
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- Hughes Inquiry
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Activists |
- Duplessis Orphans
- Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests
- Voice of the Faithful
- Barbara Blaine
- David Clohessy
- Richard Sipe
- Phil Saviano
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