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A Catholic girl (Anne-Marie Duff) finds herself in trouble in the ultra conservative Ireland of the 60s; a country where women are punished if they become pr...
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1 day ago · The harrowing truth of Ireland's Magdalene Laundries forms the backdrop for the highly anticipated film, Small Things Like These which is adapted from Claire Keegan's award-winning novel of the ...
The Magdalene Sisters is a 2002 drama film written and directed by Peter Mullan, about three teenage girls who were sent to Magdalene asylums (also known as Magdalene laundries), homes for women who were labelled as "fallen" by their families or society.
The Magdalene Sisters: Directed by Peter Mullan. With Geraldine McEwan, Anne-Marie Duff, Nora-Jane Noone, Dorothy Duffy. Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.
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- Drama
- Peter Mullan
- 2003-08-29
1 day ago · The film ends fittingly with a tribute to the more than 56,000 young women who were sent to Magdalene institutions for “penance and rehabilitation” between the years 1922 and 1996. And the ...
1 day ago · Set in New Ross, Ireland, in 1985, it is a fictional tale, with the unsettling tension of a horror film. But it is based on reality: Magdalene laundries, in which “fallen women” were forced to ...
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The film is based on Claire Keegan’s 2021 Booker-shortlisted story and tells the story of a Wexford man, coal merchant Bill Furlong, who uncovers a terrible scene at the local Magdalene Laundry