The legacy of childhood sexual abuse hangs over Kirby Dick's Oscar-nominated documentary, made for HBO's
America Undercover series, in which Toledo, Ohio, firefighter Tony Comes undertakes a sadly inconclusive quest. The 33-year-old Comes wants an accounting from Dennis Gray, the former priest who abused him as a Catholic School teenager, and from the Church hierarchy that protected his molester. When we first meet the 33-year-old Comes, he's an outgoing, ruggedly handsome man who radiates physical confidence and emotional openness. Conspicuously devoted to his wife, Wendy, and their children, nine-year-old Samantha and four-year-old Michael, Comes told his p...
Released:
2005
Rated:
NR
Length:
110 mins