Sister Mary Explains It All (2001) (TV)

Calificación de los usuarios:

5.8/10   

Director:

Marshall Brickman

Escritores (WGA):

Christopher Durang (play)
Christopher Durang (screenplay)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

28 mayo 2001 (USA)

Género:

Drama

Frase comercial:

When it comes to sin... she's hell on wheels

Plot:

A bigoted, fannatical nun comes face to face with the lives she ruined through her teachings when a quartet of her traumatised former students crash her Christmas Eve church lecture. |

Plot Keywords:

Nun | Religion | Based On Play | Character Name In Title

Premios:

1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Reactionary? You betcha!

Reparto

Diane Keaton	...	Sister Mary Ignatius
Brian Benben	...	Gary Sullivan
Wallace Langham	...	Aloysius Benheim
Laura San Giacomo	...	Angela DiMarco
Jennifer Tilly	...	Philomena Rostovich
Max Morrow	...	Thomas
Martin Mull	...	Skeptical Husband
Victoria Tennant	...	Bitter Divorcee
Joanne Boland	...	Cynthia Johnson
Jon Davey	...	Tony Cardonelli
Joan Gregson	...	Deaf Woman
Linda Kash	...	Skeptical Husband's Wife
B.J. Woodbury	...	Truck Driver
Jocelyne Zucco	...	Mrs. Cardonelli
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Mark Allan	...	Attractive Man #2
Jordan Allison	...	John, Boy in Lighting Booth (as Hunter Scott)
Rebecca Brenner	...	Young Philomena
Michael Cameron	...	Young Gary
Dana Fernald	...	Saintly Girl
Hazel Gorin	...	Elderly Woman
Ken Gorin	...	Elderly Man
Edie Inksetter	...	Woman in Audience #1
Paul MacFarlane	...	Man in Audience #1
Larry Mannell	...	Cynthia's Father
Glen McDonald	...	Attractive Man #1
Aislinn Paul	...	Angel
Gary Pearson	...	Man in Audience #2
Chloe Randle-Reis	...	Young Angela
Kirk Stambler	...	Father Gino
Steven Taylor	...	King Herod
Deborah Tennant	...	Cynthia's Mother
Mari Trainor	...	Woman in Audience #2
Spencer Van Wyck	...	Young Aloysius
Colleen Williams	...	Woman in Audience #3

Duración:

77 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Locaciones de Filmación:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Compañía:

Tennant/Stambler Productions

Trivialidades:

In this movie version of Durang's play, Laura San Giacomo's character's name is Angela DiMarco. However, in the play that character's name is Diane Symonds.

Reactionary? You betcha!

I love reading other people's commentary. Of course, the downside is seeing opinions that differ from one's own. I had to say, this movie was pretty darned funny.

Of course, the folks who have seen the play on stage will say the movie was a poor replica; it is their duty as "insiders" to knock any reproduction of what they felt was especially theirs. The screenplay was by the same man who wrote the play, and he sculpted it very carefully. To knock the movie is to knock the playwright, which to any Durang fan is quite the slight.

As for the heavy-handed approach to Catholicism; why not? I'm sure, if Durang had suffered through a Jewish school of the same nature, we would be seeing a film and/or play based on his days with the Semite community. He just happened to be Catholic, and wrote a brilliant satire of what he knew.

And of course, there is the erratic pacing of the film. Odd sequences, strange juxtapositions, etc. It is all very confusing at times, but it all serves a purpose. If one has dealt with Durang before, one knows that his delivery is always quite odd, and always biting. The performance by Keaton actually emphasized the strange nature of his writing, and while it might not have been as stellar as some stage performances, it deffinetely served its purpose.

Basically, it is an odd film. The words of Christopher Durang presented by quite the cast of actors, coupled with a pretty decent director, brought a brilliant play to (recorded) life. I can assure you that any misscomfort you feel was fully intentional. It takes you on a rollercoaster from hillarity to shock to horror, all the time driving home a very blatant message.

And by the way, non-Catholics get the jokes, too.