Cabrini
Remember her name.
2024 • 142 min • History · Drama
Synopsis
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.
Our family guide
Best from age 13- 100 Reviewers · 3 · 53%
- 77 Audience · 169 · 47%
In 1889, Italian immigrant Francesca Cabrini arrives in New York City and is confronted by widespread poverty and disease. Despite her own struggles, she embarks on a mission to establish housing and healthcare for vulnerable children, battling hostile authorities and using her entrepreneurial spirit to build a lasting legacy of hope.
- Violence & peril
- 3/10
- Language
- 1/10
- Drinking, drugs & smoking
- 1/10
- Romance & sensuality
- 0/10
- Scary moments
- 4/10
Heads up
- Depictions of poverty and illness
- Brief, non-graphic violence
- Historical discrimination
What it models well
- Compassion and empathy
- Perseverance and determination
- Social justice and advocacy
- Faith and service
Talk about it after
- Responding to suffering
- Overcoming obstacles with courage
- The power of one person to make a difference
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Where to watch
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Top billed cast
Director: Alejandro Monteverde • Crew: Rod Barr, Alejandro Monteverde, Rod Barr
Trailers & clips
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Reviewer notes
RecommendedProviding care, comfort and compassion to the world’s downtrodden is undoubtedly a noble, if exhausting and often-frustrating, cause, especially when pleas for help go ignored or fall on deaf ears. Yet, every so often, someone comes along who tirelessly keeps on fighting for those less fortunate, as was the case with Italian immigrant Mother Francesca Cabrini (Cristiana Dell’Anna).…
RecommendedTrusted family reviewersA cracking movie! I can't say I was expecting much from <em>'Cabrini'</em>, given I hadn't heard anything about it online or in real life - no trailers or anything of ilk. I was also <em><a href="https://letterboxd.com/r96sk/list/watched-in-an-empty-cinema/" rel="nofollow">alone in the cinema</a></em>, which is pleasing personally but is possibly a bad sign for a movie. In actuality, though, it's a great production!…
RecommendedTrusted family reviewersCristiana Dell'Anna delivers strongly here as the eponymous nun determined to set up a network of orphanages in China to help the sick and impoverished children there. Her persistent hassling of the Vatican for permission - and funds - has finally wound them up to the point where she is invited to Rome to be finally told no.…
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Details
- TMDB audience
- 7.7/10 (169)
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $50,000,000
- Box office
- $20,592,796
- IMDb
- tt14351082
- Official site
- www.angel.com
