The Magdalene Sisters
In a place that defied belief their only hope was each other.
Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.
- Year : 2002
- Country : Ireland, United Kingdom
- Genre : Drama, History
- Studio : Scottish Screen, UK Film Council, Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, Momentum Pictures, PFP Films, Temple Films, Dumfries & Galloway Council, South West Scotland Screen Commission, Scottish Enterprise Dumfries & Galloway, UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund, Element Films, Miramax, Film Council
- Keyword : nun, girls' boarding school, based on true story, sin, psychological abuse, punishment, sexual harassment, religion, torture, ireland, human rights, catholic, convent school, laundry, physical abuse, evil nun, convent (nunnery), 1960s, women's rights, magdalene asylum
- Director : Peter Mullan
- Cast : Anne-Marie Duff, Nora-Jane Noone, Dorothy Duffy, Geraldine McEwan, Eileen Walsh, Mary Murray