Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story

This movie is terrible. It is a descent story but bad direction and even worse acting makes this movie a bomb. Why Martin Sheen or Heather Grahm would think about participating is beyond me. My advice STAY FAR AWAY.... Full review

A rare treasure! Thought Moira Kelly did an excellent job once again in a leading role. Should have gotten an Oscar. Moving story of how one woman experiences God's redemption and then shares it with others. Great example of living out... Full review

Produced on a low budget, the film is nonetheless quite lavish in its costuming and set design, capturing the period flavor quite well for the most part. A well-intentioned labor of love, "Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story" benefits greatly from a wonderful central performance by Moira Kelly and a character whose story is often fascinating. ... Full Review

As Day, Moira Kelly alternates between creating compelling moments and a tedious sense of bland stoicism. The Lower East Side backlot sets also have a particularly sterile and unlived-in look that distracts from the flow of the story. ... Full Review

Entertaining Angels has a shallow, TV movie style that reduces what could have been compelling drama to a sadly superficial experience. ... Full Review

At once passionately heartfelt and dramatically bland, "Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story" is a well-intentioned but only fitfully compelling biopic about the human rights activist who has been called America's answer to Mother Teresa. Unfortunately, director Michael Ray Rhodes isn't able to ignite much fiery passion while telling Day's story. ... Full Review

"I've made four thousand six hundred medium-sized quiches and personally baked two tons of light- crust pastry. For what?" As a clergy wife, Grace has spent a lifetime on her best behaviour. ... Full Article

ENTERTAINING ANGELS: The Dorothy Day Story: Drama. Starring Moira Kelly and Martin Sheen. Directed by Michael Rhodes. (Not rated. 110 minutes. At the Embarcadero Center Cinema.) Dorothy Day, who died in 1980, ranks as one of America's great women for ... Full Article

This biographical drama was based on the true story of Dorothy Day, a devout Catholic who devoted much of her life to working with the poor and homeless on New York City's Lower East Side. ... Full Article

Dorothy Day remains a wonderfully fascinating and inspirational historical figure and though Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story may serve as a rudimentary introduction for those unfamiliar with her work, it hardly does justice to her complex legacy and accomplishments. ... Full Article