saint in the 'hood
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, 18/07/2008
Based on their true story, the film portrays how Dorothy Day & Peter Maurin founded the Catholic Worker movement amid the poverty & labour unrest of the 1930s in New York, & showed their community a new & relevant way of living the Gospel, as opposed to being 'a respectable Christian'.An entertaining & absorbing film, which covers the major events of religious genius Day's adult life without becoming pious or mawkish hagiography. The characters are mainly believable, though Martin Sheen's Peter Maurin initially seems a mite excessive unless you've met someone like him. Should be of interest to many people, showing the gritty difficulty of trying to improve people's lives, & one's own spirit, in a deeply conservative & troubled society.
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