The Magdalene sisters [videorecording] / Miramax Films ... [et al.] ; a film by Peter Mullan ; produced by Frances Higson ; written and directed by Peter Mullan.
Mullan, Peter.; Higson, Frances.; McEwan, Geraldine.; Duff, Anne-Marie.; Noone, Nora-Jane.; Duffy, Dorothy.; Walsh, Eileen.; Murray, Mary.; Smith, Britta.; Healy, Frances.; McGuinness, Eithne.; Humphries, Stephen.; Miramax Films.; Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm); Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm)
2004
DVD 791.4372 M189 2004
Available at 2nd (Main) Floor
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Title
The Magdalene sisters [videorecording] / Miramax Films ... [et al.] ; a film by Peter Mullan ; produced by Frances Higson ; written and directed by Peter Mullan.
Edition
Widescreen.
ISBN
0788850881
Imprint
[United States] : Miramax Home Entertainment ; Burbank, Calif. : Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2004?]
Language
English
Language Note
Closed-captioned. English and French soundtracks with optional English, French and Spanish subtitles.
Description
1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Other Standard Identifiers
786936233094
Call Number
DVD 791.4372 M189 2004
Distributor No.
33435 Miramax Home Entertainment
System Control No.
(OCoLC)54837839
Summary
In Ireland in the 1960s, four women were sent to the Magdalene Laundries, an institution for "fallen" women, where they will atone for their sins through a regimented life of work and prayer. They all had to work in the laundry, where the strict nuns would break everyone's wills through sadistic punishment. Based on a true story.
Note
Originally released as a motion picture in 2002.
Widescreen (aspect ratio 1.85:1); enhanced for 16x9 televisions; dual-layer format.
Special features: documentary "Sex in a cold climate" (1997, 50 min.) / Testimony Films for Channel Four ; producer [and director], Steve Humphries ; narrator, Dervia Kirwan. Presents a disturbing portrait of Magdalen asylums, run by unfeeling and sometimes sadistic Catholic nuns in Ireland for over a hundred years. The purpose of the asylums, named after the repentant biblical prostitute Mary Magdalene, was to correct the supposed sexual deviance of young women. The criteria of deviance were so broad some Magdalenes didn't know why they had been put away. The film follows the stories of four women who were detained in Magdalen asylums between the 1940s and the 1960s.
Widescreen (aspect ratio 1.85:1); enhanced for 16x9 televisions; dual-layer format.
Special features: documentary "Sex in a cold climate" (1997, 50 min.) / Testimony Films for Channel Four ; producer [and director], Steve Humphries ; narrator, Dervia Kirwan. Presents a disturbing portrait of Magdalen asylums, run by unfeeling and sometimes sadistic Catholic nuns in Ireland for over a hundred years. The purpose of the asylums, named after the repentant biblical prostitute Mary Magdalene, was to correct the supposed sexual deviance of young women. The criteria of deviance were so broad some Magdalenes didn't know why they had been put away. The film follows the stories of four women who were detained in Magdalen asylums between the 1940s and the 1960s.
Credits
Director of photography, Nigel Willoughby ; editor, Colin Monie ; music composer, Craig Armstrong ; costume designer, Trisha Biggar ; production designer, Mark Leese ; special effects supervisor, Steve Breheney.
Cast
Geraldine McEwan, Anne-Marie Duff, Nora-Jane Noone, Dorothy Duffy, Eileen Walsh, Mary Murray, Britta Smith, Frances Healy, Eithne McGuinness.
Audience
MPAA rating: R; for violence/cruelty, nudity, sexual content and language.
System Details Note
DVD; Region 1, Dolby digital 5.1 surround sound.
Added Author
Mullan, Peter.
Higson, Frances.
McEwan, Geraldine.
Duff, Anne-Marie.
Noone, Nora-Jane.
Duffy, Dorothy.
Walsh, Eileen.
Murray, Mary.
Smith, Britta.
Healy, Frances.
McGuinness, Eithne.
Humphries, Stephen.
Higson, Frances.
McEwan, Geraldine.
Duff, Anne-Marie.
Noone, Nora-Jane.
Duffy, Dorothy.
Walsh, Eileen.
Murray, Mary.
Smith, Britta.
Healy, Frances.
McGuinness, Eithne.
Humphries, Stephen.
Added Corporate Author
Miramax Films.
Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm)
Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm)
Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm)
Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm)
Includes
Sex in a cold climate.
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