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starring: Kate Christie, Sean Colgan, Daniel Costello (II), Anne-Marie Duff, Dorothy Duffy
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0786936234688
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Label: Miramax
Manufacturer: Miramax
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Miramax
Release Date: March 23, 2004
Running Time: 119 minutes
Sales Rank: 28115
Studio: Miramax
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - This film made me mad
I felt disgusted watching this film, yet was unable to turn it off. I was utterly amazed that these atrocities actually occured and very recently at that. This is a very serious movie about a serious subject matter. The actresses do an amazing job of portraying the victimized and imprisoned girls who get tortured in practically every way you can think of. The woman who plays the main nun is shockingly good and really makes you believe that there are true terrors in this world. Everyone should see ... Read More
Rating: - Shameful Chapter in Irish CHurch History
Three girls are sent separately to an institution run by nuns in 1960s Ireland to be reformed for sexual misbehavior.The opening sequences show each girl's individual circumstances and the incredibly unfair judgement in all three cases.
Once there they are subjected to a life of servitude and discipline that is rendered in the film as unbearably horrible. The girls adapt to their surroundings to a degree and the film becomes the story of how they struggle to retain some sense of independence ... Read More
Rating:  - An extremely serious look at a very serious problem
Women have always been treated unfairly. If you don't know that then you must have a labotomy or have blinders on. "The Magdalene Sisters" raises my ire again as we are forced to take a look at how the Irish (NOT ALL IRISH...RELAX) dealt with "problem" girls.This film is so gripping that if you don't walk away incensed and PO'd then somethings wrong.After watching Indian films such as "Water" and "Earth" I, as a man, am again reminded that women have had a raw deal and thank God that films like this are made ... Read More
Rating: - Let us examine our consciences and souls!!!
Faust's Gretchen, Irish Catholic style. The girl is deprived of her child and sent to some nunnery where she is going to be a prisoner and a working slave for the comfort of the nuns, with no hope to get out, except maybe if a younger male member of the family accepts to come and retrieve her with the benediction of his local priest, or if they escape and become more or less respectable if an accepted member of the society accepts to take her under his (very doubtful if he wants to keep his reputation) or her ... Read More
Rating: - Prisoners of virtue . . .
Set in the 1960s in Ireland, this film tells the story of four young women living and working in a Roman Catholic institution, supervised by nuns, where they have been sent for giving birth to children out of wedlock or for simply seeming to be so inclined. Regarded as prostitutes, like the maligned and misrepresented Mary Magdalene of the Bible, they have been consigned to a lifetime of servitude, working in large laundries, to regain a lost purity and save their souls. As illustrated in the film, besides being ... Read More
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