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The Magdalene Sisters

Release Date: 2002

Cast: Eithne McGuinness, Anne-Marie Duff, Phyllis MacMahon, Mary Murray, Geraldine McEwan, Nora-Jane Noone, Dorothy Duffy, Eileen Walsh, Frances Healy, Britta Smith

Categories: Movies, Period piece, Escape Film

The Magdalene Sisters is a 2002 film written and directed by Peter Mullan, about 4 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 in the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland. Peter Mullan has remarked that the film was initially made because victims of Magdalene Asylums had received no closure in the form of recognition, compensation, or apology, and many remained lifelong devout Catholics. Former Magdalene inmate Mary-Jo... MORE

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