My husband and I were able to see a sneak preview of this movie not knowing anything about it, not even the title. It is an old style epic you can watch with grandma and will have you whooping at the end (there is a conversation they show half of in the preview that a woman literally cheered at in the audience.) It is a piece of history that I knew very little about. The Italians are the newest immigrants in New York as the Irish immigrants are beginning to gain acceptance. There is modern feel in the way it reminds us that everyone has been the poor immigrant at some point and calls on us to remember that in the way we treat the newcomers or anyone else who is currently on the bottom of the pile. Yet rings modern. Unlike most modern epics today, there was no sense of preaching, just truth telling and a plain good movie. We plan on seeing it again soon with our family.
Review of Cabrini
