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A MULHER MAIS ODIADA DOS EUA (THE
MOST HATED WOMAN IN AMERICA, USA 2017) - A militant defender of the 1st
Amendment, Madalyn Murray O’Hair founded the American Atheists organization in
1963 after using her young son William as an opportunity to sue the Baltimore
City Public School System, an effort that eventually reached the Supreme Court
and effectively led to the end of mandatory Bible prayers in the nation’s
education system. William, who now goes by the name Bill Murray, would grow up
to become a Baptist minister — today, he serves as the chairman of the
Religious Freedom Coalition, his life devoted to reversing the kind of secular
progressivism that thrust his mother into the national spotlight. Pulled taut
between the disparate forces of fame and freedom, this is a uniquely American
story that’s rich with relevant detail, tantalizingly sordid even before you
get to the part where Madalyn is kidnapped from her Austin home in 1995,
abducted alongside her underachieving son and Bill’s estranged daughter. In
other words, it’s hard to believe that “The Most Hated Woman” is the first
movie that’s been made about the Murray family’s remarkable lives or their
outsized impact on our sociopolitical landscape. By that same token, however, it’s
even harder to believe that the first such movie could
be this spectacularly inert and uninteresting —
seldom has a biopic done so little with so much.
