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Our Fathers
- Director: Dan Curtis
- Writer: David France; Thomas Michael Donnelly
- Producer: Charles Bloye; Dan Curtis
CGiii Comment
Let down by some truly dreadful acting...by the supporting cast.
However, a very important story - remake this with a huge budget, the biggest stars and a brutal, truthful script and end this disgusting travesty that the church has perpetuated and concealed for too long.
Hang these bastards from the highest spires.
Danson, Plummer and Dennehy all do a good job with a weak script...that only serves to confirm that holy men DO lie.
Feel no pity for these entrusted cowards, these vile, vile men.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
In the 1970s and 1980s a scandal was brewing in the Boston diocese of the Roman Catholic Church. Pedophile priests, especially Father John Geoghan, were sexually molesting young boys. Although the Cardinal at the time, Bernard Law, was made aware of the evil acts committed by Geoghan & other priests, he sided with the priests and quietly moved them from one church to the next, and kept the matter a secret from the authorities. Years later, the victims start to come forward, and a lawyer sues Cardinal Law & the diocese for hiding the crimes from the authorities. Cardinal Law arrogantly defends his behavior, and refuses to resign. Meanwhile, Father Geoghan is found guilty and sentenced to 10 years behind bars. Will the Cardinal resign now...or continue to try to hold onto his position?
Cast & Characters
Ted Danson as Mitchell Garabedian;
Christopher Plummer as Cardinal Bernard Law;
Brian Dennehy as Father Dominic Spagnolia;
Daniel Baldwin as Angelo DeFranco;
Ellen Burstyn as Mary Ryan;
Kenneth Welsh as Bishop Murphy;
Will Lyman as Wilson Rogers Jr.;
Wayne Best as Father Doyle;
Colin Fox as Daniel Kibbe;
James Oliver as Patrick McSorley;
Jan Rubes as Pope John Paul;
Steven Shaw as John J. Geoghan;
Damien Atkins as Young Geoghan;
Hugh Thompson as Tom Blanchette;
Aidan Devine as Bernie McDaid