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Box office. $21.1 million [1] 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 homes were maintained by individual religious orders ...
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.
- (29K)
- Drama
- Peter Mullan
- 2003-08-29
Oct 17, 2016 · Hard-hitting, controversial drama in which three young women battle to maintain their spirits in a Magdalene sisterhood asylum for women labelled as 'fallen', run by sadistic nuns. Show more
Sep 5, 2002 · The film concentrates on four of the 30,000 women detained in the Magdalene laundries - for having children out of wedlock, for being promiscuous or for just being orphans.
- Peter Mullan
- 119 minutes
- Momentum
- Peter Mullan
An unflinching and compelling film depicting a shameful episode in Irish history, The Magdalene Sisters dramatises the experience of women incarcerated in Ireland’s notorious Magdalene Asylums, known as ‘Magdalene Laundries’.
The Magdalene Sisters. 2002 · 2 hr. R. Drama. Abandoned by society and cast out by their families for crimes they did not commit, these women found themselves stripped of their liberty and dignity and condemned to indefinite sentences of manual labor.
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Aug 29, 2003 · 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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