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[Available March 11 via various digital and VOD platforms.] John Bernardo and Steven E. Mallorca's stirring, gut-wrenching, heartbreaking, anger-inducing, inspirational, thought-provoking, 99-minute documentary film that chronicles sexual abuse survivor Dave Ohlmuller healing journey as he rides his bicycle from Chicago to New York in 2018 to raise awareness of the legal and political roadblocks, to seek justice not only for himself but other victims, and to come to grips with the sexual abuse he experienced as a 12-year-old child by a priest and consists of archival film footage and photographs and candid commentary by mother Ginna Ohlmuller, sexual abuse survivors (such as Joe Capozzi, Robert Hoatson, Tommy Williams, Mary McHale, Kathryn Robb, Bridie Farrell, Patrice Griffin, Sam Rivera, and Danielle Polemeni), attorney Marc Pearlman, college friend Betsy Blankenship, former police officer Art Baselice whose son committed suicide due to sexual trauma, representative Christina Hale, platform tennis partner Chris Gambino, platform team professional Dave Broderick, leading legal advocate and CEO of Child USA Marci Hamilton, Tommy's mother and advocate Kelly Williams, senator Joe Vitale, survivor Joe Capozzi's wife Angelique Capozzi, and yoga instructor Kelsey Stoll.
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