| Description |
1 DVD (approximately 119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
digital |
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optical |
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Dolby |
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video file |
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DVD video |
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region 1 |
| System Details |
DVD, produced for region 1 (North America); user must have a DVD player that will play region 1 DVDs; widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital. |
| Note |
Title from container. |
| Cast |
Geraldine McEwan, Anne-Marie Duff, Nora-Jane Noone, Dorothy Duffy, Eileen Walsh, Mary Murray, Britta Smith, Frances Healy, Eithne McGuinness. |
| 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. |
| Note |
Originally released as a motion picture in 2002. |
| Audience |
MPAA rating: R; for violence/cruelty, nudity, sexual content and language. |
| Summary |
In Ireland in the 1960s, four women were sent to the Magdalene sisterhood asylum because of 'sinful' behavior. 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 |
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. |
| Language |
Closed-captioned. English and French soundtracks with optional English, French and Spanish subtitles. |
| Subject |
Magdalen Asylum (Ireland) -- Drama.
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Church work with women -- Catholic Church -- Ireland -- Drama.
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Church work with women -- Catholic Church. |
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Ireland. |
| Genre/Form |
Drama.
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| Subject |
Reformatories for women -- Ireland -- Drama.
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Reformatories for women. |
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Women -- Institutional care -- Ireland -- Drama.
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Women -- Institutional care. |
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Church work with unmarried mothers -- Ireland -- Drama.
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Church work with unmarried mothers. |
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Unmarried mothers -- Ireland -- Drama.
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Unmarried mothers. |
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Women -- Crimes against -- Ireland -- Drama.
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Women -- Crimes against. |
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Convents -- Drama.
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Convents. |
| Genre/Form |
Feature films.
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Feature films.
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Video recordings.
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Video recordings.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Genre/Form |
Drama.
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| Added Author |
Mullan, Peter.
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Higson, Frances.
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McEwan, Geraldine.
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Duff, Anne-Marie.
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Noone, Nora-Jane.
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Duffy, Dorothy (Actress)
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Walsh, Eileen, 1977-
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Murray, Mary (Actor)
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Smith, Britta.
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Miramax Films.
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Scottish Screen (Organization)
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Film Council (Great Britain)
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Bord Scannán na hÉireann.
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PFP Films.
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Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm)
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Temple Films.
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Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm)
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| Added Title |
Sex in a cold climate.
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| ISBN |
0788850881 |
| Standard No. |
786936233094 |
| Music No. |
33435 Miramax Home Entertainment |
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