Wide release 3/8/2024
Viewed date at Thursday, March in Hanover, PA
IMBd: 7.9/10
RT Critic: 91 Audience: 98
Critic's Consensus:
Cag: 6/Awesome
Actors: Cristiana Dell'Anna, David Morse, John Lithgow
My comments: First movie on the big screen in a long time, perhaps a year? Worth the wait, for this was an extraordinary film, based on the real person, Mother Cabrini, the first American saint. Gritting my teeth I watched conceited white men make ridiculous, ruthless, selfish decisions and an extremely strong-willed female take them all on. Immigration, such a timely subject, was just as timely 135 years ago, only this time it was the Italian immigrants that were being scorned and belittled. Very powerful movie, which I loved.
RT/ IMDb Summary: From Alejandro Monteverde, award-winning director of "Sound of Freedom", comes the powerful epic of Francesca Cabrini, an Italian immigrant who arrives in New York City in 1889 and is greeted by disease, crime, and impoverished children. Cabrini sets off on a daring mission to convince the hostile mayor to secure housing and healthcare for society's most vulnerable. With broken English and poor health, Cabrini uses her entrepreneurial mind to build an empire of hope unlike anything the world had ever seen.
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