Saint of 9/11

Name: Saint of 9/11
Genre: Documentary
Released: September 6, 2006
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 67

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IFC Films | Release Date: September 6, 2006

Summary: In an enduring photograph of September 11, a team of rescue workers carry a Franciscan
priest's body from the World Trade Center. The world came to know Father Mychal Judge, Chaplain, FDNY, in death as a symbol of courage and sacrifice. Saint of 9/11 presents the turbulent, restless, spiritual and remarkable journey of Father Mychal Judge.In an enduring photograph of September 11, a team of rescue workers carry a Franciscan
priest's body from the World Trade Center. The world came to know Father Mychal Judge, Chaplain, FDNY, in death as a symbol of courage and sacrifice. Saint of 9/11 presents the turbulent, restless, spiritual and remarkable journey of Father Mychal Judge. (IFC Films)… Expand

Director: Glenn Holsten

Genre(s): Documentary

Runtime: 90 min

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Lou Lumenick

The eloquent narration forSaint of 9/11 is delivered by Ian McKellen. Read full review

Peter Rainer

More of a testimonial than a documentary, but it weaves together a portrait of a remarkable Irish-American friar, who was gay and a recovering alcoholic, and the many lives he inspired. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

Throughout, Holstein makes no bones about the fact that Father Mychal was hardly perfect -- he was a recovering alcoholic who found salvation in Alcoholics Anonymous -- nor does he attempt to disguise Father Mychal's homosexuality, something he never made public but which no doubt grounded his gutsy work with gay Catholics and people with AIDS. Read full review

Andrew O'Hehir

The simplicity and profundity of that faith, and the unquestionable nobility of Judge's death, are well captured here. Read full review

John Anderson

An unabashed tribute to Judge's life, struggles and Christian mission, does a good job of communicating what made Judge an inspiring figure to many, while making his life's work accessible and understandable. Read full review

Stephen Holden

The movie's steadily elegiac tone precludes it from creating a more lively, idiosyncratic portrait of a man who, by many accounts, was a wonderful raconteur whose gift of gab was complemented by a rollicking sense of humor. Read full review

Michael Atkinson

Mychal Judge, the popular gay FDNY chaplain who perished in the fallen towers and was the day's first official casualty, has been so designated by this treacly, worshipful doc, something he would surely have deemed ridiculous. Read full review

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