Deliver Us From Evil

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Deliver Us From Evil

Released Oct 13, 2006

1h 43m

Documentary

Crime

Drama

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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a.l.jude p

Universal appeal must be paid !

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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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

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delysid d

these priests shouldnt be priests. they should be in jail

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/06/19

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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

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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

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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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