In the '80s, priests and especially the Father Geoghan arrested for sexual abuse of minors. Cardinal Law, also indicted, and the diocese was aware of the actions of these men of the church and was kept secret for years, until the victims decide to seek redress.
Acting
Plummer's chilling denial versus Danson's quietly burning conviction.
Writing
Dialogue that weaponizes bureaucracy against truth.
Director
Dan Curtis
Ted Danson
Mitchell Garabedian
Christopher Plummer
Cardinal Bernard Law
Brian Dennehy
Father Dominic Spagnolia
Ellen Burstyn
Mary Ryan
Kenneth Welsh
Bishop Murphy
Will Lyman
Wilson Rogers Jr.
James Aaron Oliver
Patrick McSorley
Jan Rubeš
Pope John Paul
Aidan Devine
Bernie McDaid
Daniel Baldwin
Angelo DeFranco
Wayne Best
Father Doyle
Hugh Thompson
Tom Blanchette
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Dan Curtis was primarily a horror director — this was his final film, a pivot to real-world monstrosity.
Released two years before the Oscar-winning Spotlight on the same scandal; this is the forgotten first draft.
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