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Hand of God

User Rating	1 2 3 4 5
Producer(s)	Joe Cultrera , Laura Corwin, Hugh Walsh
Director(s)	Joe Cultrera
Release Date	2005
Runtime	95 min
Format(s)	video, DVD
Youth Media	no

Film Description

Beyond the headlines, the statistics and the ecclesiastical spin, HAND OF GOD relates the experience of a survivor of Catholic clergy abuse. As filmed by his brother, this is a bare-knuckle and visually compelling rendition of a twisted sacramental cycle. It is an unfiltered story of a family maneuvering between anger and nervous laughter as it attempts to regain its footing above a crumbling corporate belief system. From indoctrination to abuse; from silence to dialogue; HAND OF GOD ushers the audience into one side of a religion and then pulls it out the other. This intensely personal, poetic and outspoken film peers into a crisis that has affected millions of tradition bound believers.