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The Peacemaker

Play trailer Poster for The Peacemaker 2018,  1h 30m,  Documentary Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 87% 15 Reviews Tomatometer - - Popcornmeter
87% Tomatometer 15 Reviews Popcornmeter
Irish peacemaker Padraig O'Malley has an uncanny ability to gain a person's trust. Filmmaker James Demo follows O'Malley for five years as he brokers peace in crisis zones from Nigeria to Iraq.

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Ty Burr Boston Globe Apr 12, 2018
3.5/4
By the end of "The Peacemaker," you feel you're watching a Samuel Beckett character furiously trying to improvise himself out of the play. In the process, he's bringing the rest of us along. Go to Full Review
G. Allen Johnson San Francisco Chronicle Mar 26, 2018
The Peacemaker is absorbing, and O'Malley is a fascinating character. Go to Full Review
Owen Gleiberman Variety Mar 22, 2018
The more we get to know him, the more his core motivation - is he an idealist or something else? - becomes the mystery of the film. Go to Full Review
Erin Blackwell Bay Area Reporter Jun 2, 2020
After 60 minutes, Peacemaker loses traction and shifts into a maudlin, slow-moving, and perverse unraveling of the man and his self-ordained mission. Go to Full Review
Phil Guie Film-Forward.com Mar 23, 2019
4/5
Despite a fairly weighty middle section, The Peacemaker is an unexpectedly hopeful character study that balances moments of big-stage heroism with ones of a quieter sort. Go to Full Review
Douglas Davidson FilmFed Mar 1, 2019
8/10
While an uplifting story to be sure, there's also a great deal of pain; pain that [subject] O'Malley, and his closest confidantes, don't shy away from discussing. Go to Full Review
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James Demo

Director

James Demo

Writer

James Demo

Producer

Beth Murphy

Executive Producer

Stephen Nemeth

Executive Producer

Beth Balaban

Cinematographer

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The Peacemaker

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Movie Info

Synopsis Irish peacemaker Padraig O'Malley has an uncanny ability to gain a person's trust. Filmmaker James Demo follows O'Malley for five years as he brokers peace in crisis zones from Nigeria to Iraq.
Director
James Demo
Producer
James Demo
Screenwriter
James Demo
Distributor
Central Square Films
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Feb 9, 2018, Limited
Box Office (Gross USA)
$4.4K
Runtime
1h 30m
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