Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story

Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story
Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story
Directed by	Michael Ray Rhodes
Written by	John Wells
Starring	Moira Kelly; Heather Graham; Lenny Von Dohlen; Martin Sheen
Distributed by	Paulist Pictures
Release date	September 27, 1996;
Country	United States
Language	English

Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story is a 1996 independent film about the life of Dorothy Day, the journalist turned social activist and founder of the Catholic Worker newspaper. The film stars Moira Kelly as Day, Heather Graham, Lenny Von Dohlen and Martin Sheen.

Writer John Wells and actors Kelly and Sheen also collaborated in the NBC dramatic series The West Wing. Kelly, Graham, and Von Dohlen previously appeared in David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.

Cast

Moira Kelly as Dorothy Day
Martin Sheen as Peter Maurin
Lenny Von Dohlen as Forster Batterham
Melinda Dillon as Sister Aloysius
Paul Lieber as Mike Gold
Heather Graham as Maggie Bowen
Boyd Kestner as Lionel Moise
James Lancaster as Eugene O'Neill
Geoffrey Blake as Floyd Dell
Tracey Walter as Joe Bennett
Brian Keith as Cardinal
Thom Adcox-Hernandez as Dan Irwin
Allyce Beasley as Frankie
Val Bettin as Mr. Breen
Marianne Muellerleile as Landlady
Renée Estevez as Lilly Batterham
Redmond Gleeson as Irish Man

Reception

On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a 50% approval rating based on 6 reviews, with an average score of 5.7/10.

External links

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