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  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 30 m

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 Jud...

Directed By: Glenn Holsten

  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 30 m

Saint of 9/11

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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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 Jud...

Directed By: Glenn Holsten

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Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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75
Overly reverent but still immensely touching.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
75
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.
By Peter Rainer FULL REVIEW
75
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.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
70
The simplicity and profundity of that faith, and the unquestionable nobility of Judge's death, are well captured here.
By Andrew O'Hehir FULL REVIEW
70
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.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
70
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.
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50
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.
By Michael Atkinson FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Equality Forum, Glennfilms, Red Envelope Entertainment
Release Date Sep 6, 2006
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline The life of Father Mychal Judge, Chaplain, FDNY.
Website http://www.saintof9-11.com/
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Tribeca Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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