Sacred Hearts

• Director: Barbara Rennie
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• Genre: Drama
• Movie Type: Religious Drama
• Themes: Assumed Identities, Crimes Against Humanity, Members of the Clergy
• Main Cast: Anna Massey, Katrin Cartlidge, Fiona Shaw, Anne Dyson
• Release Year: 1984
• Country: UK
• Run Time: 95 minutes

Plot

Sacred Hearts in one of the more trenchant of the "nun- bashing" films of the 1980s. Anna Massey plays the unbalanced Mother Superior in charge of a British convent during the war years. Through the rigid enforcement of her Spartanlike rules, Sister Massey puts her fellow nuns through the torments of the damned (are we mixing metaphors?). Her greatest crime is to refuse to acknowledge the doubts and fears of the novices in times of extreme crisis--such as the war itself. Sacred Hearts might be even more fascinating if it were double-featured with The Nun's Story--or The Sound of Music. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Anna Massey - Sister Thomas
• Katrin Cartlidge - Doris
• Fiona Shaw - Sister Felicity
• Anne Dyson - Sister Perpetua

Annette Badland - Sister Mercy; Sadie Wearing - Mary; Ann-Marie Gwatkin - Lizzie; Kathy Burke - Tillie; Gerard Murphy - Father Larkin; Murray Melvin - Father Power; John Bett - Dr. Taylor; Oona Kirsch - Maggie

Credit

Monica Howe - Costume Designer, Barbara Rennie - Director, Martin Walsh - Editor, Moya Burns - Sound/Sound Designer, Barbara Rennie - Screenwriter

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Agnes of God; Black Narcissus; The Nun's Story