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When a dead newborn is found, wrapped in bloody sheets, in the bedroom wastebasket of a young novice, psychiatrist Martha Livingston is called in to determine if the seemingly innocent novice, who knows nothing of sex or birth, is competent enough to stand trial for the murder of the baby.
Theatrical
Sep 27, 1985
DVD / Blu-ray
May 21, 2002
Theaters
1
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Columbia Pictures
Quotes
See all →Conflict Over a Woman's Happiness and Choices
Mother Miriam Ruth
I am saying that you have a beautifully simple woman here.
[about Sister Agnes]
Martha Livingston
An unhappy woman.
Mother Miriam Ruth
She's happy with us, and she could go on being happy if she were left alone.
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Imagining Saints in Modern Habits
Martha Livingston
Suppose the saints would have smoked if tobacco'd been popular back then.
Mother Miriam Ruth
Undoubtedly. Not the ascetics, of course, but, well, St. Thomas More.
Martha Livingston
Long, thin, and filtered!
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Cast
Full credits →J
Jane Fonda
Dr. Martha Louise Livingston
M
Meg Tilly
Sister Agnes
A
Anne Bancroft
Mother Miriam Ruth
A
Anne Pitoniak
Dr. Livingston's Mother
W
Winston Rekert
Det. Larry Langevin
G
Gratien Gélinas
Father Martineau
G
Guy Hoffmann
Justice Joseph Leveau
G
Gabriel Arcand
Monsignor
F
Françoise Faucher
Eve LeClaire
J
Jacques Tourangeau
Eugene Lyon
J
Janine Fluet
Sister Marguerite
D
Deborah Grover
Sister Anne
S
Samantha Langevin
Sister Jeannine
F
Françoise Berd
Sister Thérèse
M
Mimi D'Estée
Sister Elizabette
R
Rita Tuckett
Sister Geraldine (as Rita Tucket)
N
Norma Dell'Agnese
Sister Geneviève
F
France Arbour
Housekeeper
V
Victor Désy
Librarian (as Victor Desy)
C
Charlotte Laurier
Young Prostitute
