When a dead newborn is found, wrapped in bloody sheets, in the bedroom wastebasket of a young novice, psychiatrist Martha Livingston is called in to determine if the seemingly innocent novice, who knows nothing of sex or birth, is competent enough to stand trial for the murder of the baby.
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Jane Fonda
Dr. Martha Louise Livingston
Meg Tilly
Sister Agnes
Anne Bancroft
Mother Miriam Ruth
Anne Pitoniak
Dr. Livingston's Mother
Winston Rekert
Det. Larry Langevin
Gratien Gélinas
Father Martineau
Guy Hoffmann
Justice Joseph Leveau
Gabriel Arcand
Monsignor
Françoise Faucher
Eve LeClaire
Jacques Tourangeau
Eugene Lyon
Director
Norman Jewison
Screenplay
John Pielmeier
Tagline
"That night, murder wasn't the only sin."
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Production
Columbia Pictures
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