Boys of St Vincent, The

THE BOYS OF ST VINCENT Canada, 1992, 91 minutes, Colour. Henry Czerny, Johnny Marino, Directed by John N.Smith. Still one of the most powerful and frank films about sexual abuse of minors is The Boys of St Vincent (1992, director John N. Smith) and its companion film, The Boys of St Vincent: 15 Year...
THE BOYS OF ST VINCENT
Canada, 1992, 91 minutes, Colour.
Henry Czerny, Johnny Marino,
Directed by John N.Smith.
Still one of the most powerful and frank films about sexual abuse of minors is The Boys of St Vincent (1992, director John N. Smith) and its companion film, The Boys of St Vincent: 15 Years Later (1992, Dir John N.Smith). What seems surprising in retrospect is that it was produced in the early 1990s at a time when, especially in the English-speaking world, awareness of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church was only beginning to be publicly known. The film anticipates so much of the controversies, sympathies for the survivors of abuse, condemnation of the predators, discussions …