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starring: Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans, Peggy Ashcroft, Dean Jaggerdirected by: Fred Zinnemann
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302636772
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6302636779
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: September 01, 1998
Running Time: 149 minutes
Sales Rank: 3629
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: July 18, 1959
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Fred Zinnemann's epic drama is a splendid showcase for Audrey Hepburn, who stars as the young nun Sister Luke, who is deeply spiritual yet conflicted about whether or not she can conform to convent life. Though the film is a mesmerizing--and quite leisurely--two and a half hours, its plot is fairly simple--young Gabrielle (Hepburn) enters the convent pledging her life to God, learns the disciplines associated with the life, receives her dream assignment of going to the Congo as a missionary nurse, and once there, is forced to face whether she is meant for the rigorous life of poverty, chastity, and most difficult of all, obedience. The film does a marvelous job of portraying the challenges of cloistered life without being either off-putting or overly romantic. And Hepburn, sometimes with only her eyes, communicates all the drive, faith, and conflict of a young woman so torn. --Anne Hurley
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Rating:  - The Nun's Story
This is one of my all-time favorite movies of Audrey Hepburn. I have the VHS and wore it out. I was very glad to see it released on DVD. So many of my favorite classic movies are not released on DVD. The Nun's Story is an enthralling story of a young idealistic young woman who was brilliant in medicine thanks to the tutelage of her doctor father. Upon learning that the man she loves carries genes that will pass on severe mental disabilities, they decided that it wouldn't be right to marry. ... Read More
Rating: - Obedience to rules and regulations
This old film is well done and offers an interesting look inside the walls of a Roman Catholic cloister in Belgium, and then at the missionary field of Africa. But it also provides the same message as the Bible's Old Testament, that strict obedience to an exacting set of rules and regulations is impossible. One ends up doing as is implied in this film--they either cheat or they leave.
Rating:  - One of Audrey's Best
The only reason I didn't give this movie five stars is because the beginning of it DRAGS so badly. Be patient, it gets much better, and the choice of Audrey Hepburn, with her expressive eyes, was perfect.
It's the kind of movie that you will talk about and discuss with others who have seen it afterward, and that always makes me feel that I have seen a superior movie.
Rating: - LIVING THE CRUCIFIED LIFE
There are very few movies (or books) available to the true Christian believer that demonstrate the life of taking up your cross and following Christ daily. Of dying to self - so that it is no longer about you but only Christ. THIS IS ONE OF THOSE MOVIES that will be of benefit to you if you long to submit to Him - NOT THE RITUALS, NOT RELIGION - but the life that is no longer YOU - the death of YOU, of self, of vanity, of pride - of coming out from among the world and being separate. And even ... Read More
Rating: - Spiritual Crisis in the Colonies
This is a real sleeper. Fascinating for its 1959 sensibilities with regard to the white man's burden, its depiction of "the natives," the joys of being colonized by Belgium. In fairness, it is also a fascinating psychological portrait of a woman torn between spirituality and the worlds of science and politics. Hepburn at her best. This is no Deborah Kerr on the beach potboiler. Really rather unforgettable.
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