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Deliver Us From Evil

Play trailer Poster for Deliver Us From Evil Released Oct 13, 2006 1h 43m Documentary Crime Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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Filmmaker Amy Berg documents the case of convicted pedophile Oliver Grady who, as a priest in northern California, molested the children of his parishioners, apparently with the knowledge of his superiors in the diocese. Berg tracks down O'Grady in Ireland, where he lives free under church protection, and allows him to give his own account of his crimes.
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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.

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Sandra Hall Sydney Morning Herald The polemical is never as powerful as the personal and O'Grady's part of the story illuminates the whole with nauseating clarity. Rated: 4/5 May 18, 2007 Full Review Bill Muller Arizona Republic Deliver Us Evil is more terrifying than any horror movie, because it's about something that really happened. Rated: 4/5 Dec 15, 2006 Full Review Moira MacDonald Seattle Times Watching Amy Berg's powerful documentary Deliver Us from Evil is a wrenching experience; her subjects reveal to the camera almost unbearable levels of anguish, and its audience walks away feeling both numbness and rage. Rated: 3.5/4 Nov 10, 2006 Full Review Peter Keough Boston Phoenix The film is painful viewing, in large part because director Amy Berg relates the facts and depicts the victims and the culprits with detached gravity. Rated: 3.5/4 Apr 23, 2009 Full Review Jonathan Kiefer Sacramento News & Review Berg's intuitively right ratio of personal and analytical material, her implied belief in transcendence of horrific demoralization, shows a truly progressive vision. Rated: 4/5 Aug 7, 2008 Full Review Robert Roten Laramie Movie Scope This is a powerful film that will horrify you and make you angry, if you dare to see it. Rated: A Jul 26, 2007 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member This rough-hewn but well-meaning Oscar nominee for Best Documentary Feature uncloaking the penumbra of clergy sexual and spiritual abuse of children in the Catholic Church is utterly disconcerting and exasperatedly aggravating as the conceitedness of the vile pedophile former priest Oliver O'Grady in his alleged confessions. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review a.l.jude p Universal appeal must be paid ! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Phenomenal exposé on the insidiousness of the Catholic Church specifically, and a broader indictment of the institution of religion. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review delysid d these priests shouldnt be priests. they should be in jail Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/06/19 Full Review Audience Member A cut and dry case against the church and its priests re pedophilia. The part that bothers me the most is how strongly the church advocates against gay people and gay relationships but are ok with priests molesting young boys. This is a pressing issue and as long as it continues, a spotlight should be cast upon it. Why would it stop though? None of the priests are held accountable for their actions. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review Audience Member Makes me wonder just how far reaching and how many people have had to have been in full co-operation to these abuses. And their responses then are the same as they were to our royal commission (Australia)..."We don't care. We aren't changing" A simply made and shot documentary whose contents speak for themselves. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Filmmaker Amy Berg documents the case of convicted pedophile Oliver Grady who, as a priest in northern California, molested the children of his parishioners, apparently with the knowledge of his superiors in the diocese. Berg tracks down O'Grady in Ireland, where he lives free under church protection, and allows him to give his own account of his crimes.
Director
Amy Berg
Producer
Amy Berg, Hermas Lassalle, Frank Donner
Screenwriter
Amy Berg
Distributor
Lionsgate Films
Production Co
Disarming Films
Genre
Documentary, Crime, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Oct 13, 2006, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Dec 1, 2008
Box Office (Gross USA)
$196.6K
Runtime
1h 43m
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