A Movie You Might Have Missed #99 — Cabrini

Italian immigrant Francesca Cabrini arrives in 1889 New York City and is greeted by disease, crime, and impoverished children. Cabrini sets off on a daring mission to convince the hostile mayor to secure housing and healthcare for society’s most vulnerable. With broken English and poor health, Cabrini uses her entrepreneurial mind to build an empire of hope unlike anything the world had ever seen.

This is a great bio-pic of the sort that Hollywood used to make so well. It is gorgeously shot, well framed, and compellingly told. The real payoff is in the last of the flashbacks of her near-drowning as a child which puts a new layer of perspective on the story. 

It received positive reviews from secular and religious film critics and you can see why. My book club watched it and our discussion afterwards went in a lot of tangents because Cabrini doesn't shy away from difficult topics. It's definitely a good movie worth watching.