Main Cast: Moira Kelly, Martin Sheen, Boyd Kestner, Lenny Von Dohlen
Release Year: 1996
Run Time: 110 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG13
Plot
This biographical drama was based on the true story of Dorothy Day, a devout Catholic who devoted much of her life to working with the poor and homeless on New York City's Lower East Side. Born in an Episcopalian household in 1897, Day (played by Moira Kelly) was a free-thinking agnostic in her young adulthood; she contributed to radical leftist journals and was friends with the likes of Eugene O'Neill (James Lancaste) and Mike Gold (Paul Lieber). After undergoing a painful abortion and giving birth to another child out of wedlock after her lover, Foster Batterham (Lenny Von Dohlen), abandoned her rather than marry, Day embraced Catholicism, a faith she would cling to strongly for the rest of her life. Day's leftist politics and her sense of personal activism remained; she established a political journal, "The Catholic Worker," in association with self-described Christian anarchist Peter Maurin (Martin Sheen), and was a tireless and outspoken champion of the rights of the poor and disenfranchised. Day came under heavy criticism for her political and social activism; as she put it, "If you feed the poor, you're called a saint, but if you ask why they're poor, you're called a Communist." However, Day continued her mission undaunted until her death in 1980, when she was called America's Mother Teresa. Entertaining Angels was produced by Paulist Pictures, a Catholic organization who also produced Romero, another film about a noted Catholic activist. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Allyce Beasley - Frankie; Geoffrey Blake - Floyd Dell; Melinda Dillon - Sister Aloysius; Heather Graham - Maggie; Brian Keith - The Cardinal; Paul Lieber - Mike Gold; Tracey Walker - Joe Bennett; Heather Camille - Tamar; James Lancaste - Eugene O'Neill
Credit
Mary Olivia McIntosh - Art Director, Peter J. Burrell - Co-producer, Chris Donahue - Co-producer, Gail Evans-Ivy - Costume Designer, Carl Lawrence Ludwig - First Assistant Director, Michael Rhodes - Director, George Folsey, Jr. - Editor, Geoffrey Rowland - Editor, Bill Conti - Songwriter, Ashley Irwin - Songwriter, Mike Fash - Camera Operator, Charles Rosen - Production Designer, Ellwood E. Kieser - Producer, Edward Tise - Sound/Sound Designer, John Wells - Screenwriter
Both Kelly and Sheen are also co-stars of the NBC dramatic series The West Wing. Kelly, Von Dohlen and Graham have previously appeared in David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.
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