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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: 30228
Studio: Miramax
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:  - Shocking and Truthful
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 ... Read More
Rating:  - Good
Brutally psychopathic lesbian nuns and lascivious pedophile priests. What else is new? No, seriously, watching the DVD of The Magdalene Sisters was like a time machine for me. Not that I was ever an unwed mother in an Irish hellhole run by religious extremists, but I did grow up in a poor neighborhood that was patrolled by reprobate and psychotic cops that made the bad cops in Serpico look virginal, by comparison. Those cops, as the nuns in the film, ruled by terror and brutality. People were assaulted ... Read More
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 this film, ... 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 and ... 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
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