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[Emir Ballard]

Manypositive messages about faith and caring for children, immigrants, and others in need. Shows how even an unlikely hero can stand up to powerful bullies and make a lasting impact on the world. Poses the questions, "What kind of world do we want to live in, and what will we do to achieve it?"

Mother Cabrini is brave, determined, humble, shrewd, empathetic. She believes that it's her religious purpose to help orphans and other downtrodden people of the world. She perseveres and does everything possible to take care of the orphaned children in her care and advocate tirelessly for them and for immigrants in general. The nuns in her order are all devoted to Cabrini's mission. Archbishop Corrigan is initially frustrated with and hostile toward Mother Cabrini but eventually learns to respect her. Dr. Murphy is a kind and generous ally to Mother Cabrini who introduces her to wealthy immigrants who can invest in her programs. Mayor Gould is selfish and racist, but even he ultimately comes to respect Mother Cabrini.

Takes place in late 19th century United States, when Italian immigrants were widely discriminated against due to their darker skin color, Catholic religion, and poverty. Even though Mother Cabrini doesn't always have agency (e.g., where and when she's ordered by the Catholic Church hierarchy), she's brave and refuses to be cowed by powerful men. She doesn't let her disability (she's sickly and frail) keep her from following her mission. Director Alejandro Monteverde is Mexican American.

Glimpses of several dead bodies. People of all ages (including children) die of sickness and exposure. Sex worker Vittoria warns the nuns about her pimp, Geno, who nearly knocks down a door and threatens the nuns more than once. Geno also brutally beats Vittoria more than once, nearly killing her the second time. A child shoots a man but doesn't kill him. A character fatally stabs another character. Mother Cabrini is frail and sickly, and there are several flashbacks to the moment she nearly drowned as a child. An explosion at a coal plant leads to many injuries and sad deaths. Police officers break up an Italian festival and arrest and injure citizens. Arguments.

Cabrini was an outstanding film that tells a story of a difficult time and the leader who overcame obstacles to make her bit of the world better. our family all loved it, from kids who were barely ten to adults. highly recommended.

CABRINI begins with Lombardy-based Sister Francesca Cabrini (Cristiana Dell'Anna) being invited to Rome to meet with Pope Leo XIII (Giancarlo Giannini). She hopes to secure a mission to China to open orphanages with her Order of Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. At first, the pope declines, but she persists and convinces him to grant her a mission. But he asks her to go not to China, but to America, where the Catholic Italian immigrants in New York City are in desperate need of help and hope. Cabrini and her sisters land in New York in 1889 and immediately head to the infamous slum of Five Points, a neighborhood so notorious that a young sex worker named Vittoria (Romana Maggiora Vergano) takes pity on them, incurring the wrath of her pimp. The archbishop of New York, Michael Corrigan (David Morse), is opposed to Mother Cabrini's ambition and prohibits her from soliciting non-Italians for donations. As Cabrini begins to care for more and more children, she refuses to stop advocating for more space and aid, angering not only the archbishop, but also the racist Mayor Gould (John Lithgow), who wants "those dirty Italians" kept to the slums. At every turn, Cabrini refuses to back down, staying true to her calling to provide shelter, education, and love to the poorest and most vulnerable.

Propelled by Dell'Anna's nuanced leading performance, this biopic about the influential Catholic missionary is insightful, if too long. Cabrini is a tribute to a selfless woman of tremendous faith and also a reminder of the fact that, to quote Hamilton, immigrants get the job done. Both the character and the film are surprisingly feminist. Mother Cabrini doesn't let her accent, her gender, her size, or her disability (she's sickly and frail) keep her from following her purpose to house, love, and teach the poorest of the poor. That said, the script is a bit heavy-handed, making almost every single interaction Cabrini has with a man into a horror show of vitriol and epithets. (The only exceptions are Patch Darragh's kindhearted Dr. Murphy and, in the third act of the movie, the reluctantly respectful archbishop.)

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