Devil's Playground (2014)★ 7.6/10
- Drama
Directed by: Tony Krawitz, Rachel Ward
Written by: Alice Addison, Blake Ayshford, Tommy Murphy, Cate Shortland
Deals with the issue of crimes committed by Australian Catholic clergy.
- Original title
- Devil's Playground
- Storyline
- In 1976, Fred Schepisi's first feature film, The Devil's Playground, daringly dealt with the conflict between desire and spirituality in a Catholic seminary. It's now considered a classic of Australian cinema. At the film's centre was a 13-year-old boy, Tom Allen, torn between his calling and his sexuality. This series picks up the story 35 years later. It is 1988 and Tom is now in his forties. A practising Catholic and respected Sydney psychiatrist, Tom accepts an offer from the Bishop of Sydney to become a secular confessor to the Catholic clergy, and is soon embroiled in political and theological intrigue.
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 385
- Companies
- Matchbox Pictures
- Release dates
- AU September 9, 2014
- PT November 11, 2021
- DE June 19, 2026