From The New York Times-Maybe it’s the shallow, overly friendly filmmaking, or maybe it’s some kind of former politician’s curse, but “Fall to Grace,” a documentary about what James E. McGreevey has been doing since resigning the New Jersey governorship in 2004, never feels as if it got to the core of the man.
The film, Thursday night on HBO, shows us Mr. McGreevey as he studies for the Episcopal priesthood and works with female inmates in Hudson County, N.J., who are struggling with substance abuse. It lets him talk about his new life and the process of finding his way to it. Yet statements that ought to sound earnest and heartfelt — “I feel like I am called to help these women” — sound instead as if he were trying to convince us. The way a politician might try to convince us that he’s pro-environment or anti-taxes.
Mr. McGreevey, of course, resigned in August 2004 after acknowledging that he was gay, an admission that he said was forced by a former male aide’s threats. His divorce from his wife, Dina Matos, was tabloid fodder.
http://tv.nytimes.com/2013/03/28/arts/television/fall-to-grace-about-james-e-mcgreevey-on-hbo.html?_r=0
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