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The Magdalene Sisters is a 2002 drama film written and directed by Peter Mullan, about three teenage girls who were sent to Magdalene asylums (also known as Magdalene laundries), homes for women who were labelled as "fallen" by their families or society.
The Magdalene Sisters: Directed by Peter Mullan. With Geraldine McEwan, Anne-Marie Duff, Nora-Jane Noone, Dorothy Duffy. Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.
- (29K)
- Drama
- Peter Mullan
- 2003-08-29
Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.
- (228)
- Peter Mullan
- R
- 17
A stirring, must-see motion picture critics called one of the best films of the year, THE MAGDALENE SISTERS is the triumphant story of three extraordinary wo...
The Magdalene Sisters is an intense watch, but one that allows its central characters a sense of hope and power, even amid the atrocities. Rated: 4/5 Dec 8, 2021. A disturbing, heartbreaking...
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- Peter Mullan
- R
- Geraldine Mcewan
Aug 15, 2003 · “The Magdalene Sisters” is a harrowing look at institutional cruelty, perpetrated by the Catholic Church in Ireland, and justified by a perverted hysteria about sex. “I’ve never been with any lads ever,” one girl says, protesting her sentence, “and that’s the god’s honest truth.”
While women's liberation sweeps the globe, in 1960s Ireland four "fallen" women are stripped of their liberty and dignity and condemned to indefinite servitude in the Magdalene Laundries, where they'll work to atone for their "sins." Watch Now. Film.
