Agnes of God

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Plot: This Broadway hit gets a solid film treatment by director Norman Jewison, but that can't make up for the weaknesses of the script (which were as true onstage as they are here). Jane Fonda plays a chai...( read more  )n-smoking shrink sent to a convent to do a psychological evaluation of a novice (Meg Tilly) who gave birth to a baby and then killed it in her little room. Was it a virgin birth? A miracle? And what of the bloody stigmata that seem to spontaneously appear on her hands? Fonda also finds herself clashing with the Mother Superior (Anne Bancroft) over the line between faith and science. But writer John Pielmeier can't flesh this out beyond an idea; in the end, the solution is a disappointingly earthbound one that even the strong acting in this film can't elevate. --Marshall Fine

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  MCT:

  February 24, 2008

  About 6 years ago, I turned on the TV to hear one of the most beautiful scores I've ever heard in my life. Since I only caught the end of Agnes of God, I always swore I would try to see it someday. I finally got my hands on it. First off, to my dismay, the piece that I had loved so much is only heard at the end credits. This was unfortunate, since the film is quite noticeably and embarrassingly ridiculous without it. Kind of like a naked leprechaun. Jane Fonda was way over the top as a psychiatrist with an inexplicable and unrealistic passion to solve a mysterious case of manslaughter. She was hired merely to psychoanalyze and evaluate the suspect (an unintentionally humorous schizoid spaz of a nun). But somehow she surpasses all limits of reason and dons a Sherlock Holmes cap and monocle, determined to uncover the truth, which was revealed to be so terribly supernatural that you'll feel dumb for being drawn into the mystery to begin with. If the director was going for a dramatic, touching story, he failed miserably and created a laughable tour de farts. Anne Bancroft was the best part of the movie, and even her character exhibited the most incoherent contradictions of character. Wait for this one to show up on We or Oxygen networks.

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  September 9, 2007

  Was very interesting but not something I would watch more than once. My favorite was mother superior!

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  July 19, 2007

  Good movie.. I dislike Jane Fonda.... again her views killed her in the 70's -- guess i grew up with tooo many that went to Vietnam -- Anne Bancroft is a legend..... have watched this many times

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  May 30, 2007

  Tour-de-force for almost everyone involved. The material allows for great performances -- and they deliver! For me, it overcomes the weaknesses of the storytelling

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  May 21, 2007

  Great little flick about a nun who may have murdered her child. Is she insanse? was it immaculate conception?

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  Young nun in a convent, so enamored with her Savior that she seems to be in a lovestruck daze, may or may not have killed an infant. Anne Bancroft is the Mother Superior, Jane Fonda is the investigating psychiatrist (every movie should have one), and Tilly is the enchanting yet frustrating nun whom nobody can budge with common sense. Adapted from the kind of stage-play that doesn't go over well in high schools, "Agnes of God" (terrible title!) is sort of the flip-side to "Rosemary's Baby", an unsettling, overwrought exercise for thespians to display their range. What's amazing is that these actresses carve out interesting characterizations within the hoked-up, hysterical scenario. They can't possibly believe these goings-on, but they give it conviction, particularly Fonda, sterling as usual. Bancroft shines in one particular scene, again hoked-up, where she sneaks a cigarette; it's a cliché, but it's the relief the picture needs. Tilly is aggravatingly bright and beguiling. By the third act, the film has pretty much self-destructed, yet there's not much satisfaction in the answers given to us.

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  Anne Bancroft
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  Anne Pitoniak
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  Gratien G?linas
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  Gratien Galinas
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  Guy Hoffman
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  Jane Fonda
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  Meg Tilly
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  Winston Reckert
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  Winston Rekert

• Rated: (PG-13)
• Directed by: Norman Jewison
• Genres: Mystery & Suspense, Drama
• Released: September 13, 1985
• DVD Released: May 21, 2002

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