The Magdalene Sisters

The Magdalene Sisters
by Peter Mullan

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Actor: Anne-Marie Duff, Daniel Costello (II), Dorothy Duffy, Kate Christie, Sean Colgan
Director: Peter Mullan
Brand: Unknown
Primary Contributor: Anne-Marie Duff
Primary Contributor: Dorothy Duffy
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 120 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-03-23
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Miramax Home Entertainment

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Movie Review: Shocking and Truthful
Summary: 4 Stars

This movie is a realistic look at the abuse of girls and women by Roman Catholic priest and nuns in "homes for wayward girls" in Ireland. These "homes" were basically white slavery, revenue producers and baby mills for the Roman Catholic church (RCC). No one after seeing this movie could deny that the abuse in the RCC is localized to a few bad apples in the RCC. With over 50,000 girls going through this horrible experience it is no wonder that people are leaving RCC is losing members.
The movie is well made "docudrama" with good production quality. Although it is shocking to see, it is nonetheless very truthful. If you do not have a strong stomach, this is not the movie for you.
While the characters are composites of the thousands of girls that passed through theses homes. The interviews on the "extra section" with the women who experienced these horrors is especially moving.
I would recommend this movie as an expose of the abuse that happens when a nation lets the RCC have its way. After these abuses were made known, it caused the collapse of the government resulting in elections and reforms.

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Summary of The Magdalene Sisters

In 1964, four young women are banished to the Magdalene Sisterhood convent for sexual behavior, where they are abused and overworked doing laundry.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 7-SEP-2004
Media Type: DVD

A movie guaranteed to make the blood boil, The Magdalene Sisters gives a lacerating account of life inside a Magdalene Laundry, one of the dismal asylums for "wayward women" run by the Catholic Church in Ireland. Director Peter Mullan, inspired by a TV documentary on the same subject, follows the miserable fates of three young women who are institutionalized in the 1960s for flimsy reasons; their lives are at the mercy of sadistic nuns (Geraldine McEwan is superb as the head of the place). The film sounds tortuous, but its rich sense of outrage and excellent performances--Nora-Jane Noone is a real discovery--make it consistently gripping. The movie won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival and went on to become a box-office hit in Ireland, where the Magdalene system was still a fresh memory. It had been abolished only in 1996. --Robert Horton

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