Agnes of God

1985 98 min ★ 6.3 Drama, Mystery

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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Cast

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

Details

Director

Norman Jewison

Screenplay

John Pielmeier

Tagline

"That night, murder wasn't the only sin."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Production

Columbia Pictures

Reviews

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Wuchak

November 24, 2020

★ 5/10

_**Melodramatic havoc at a rural Canadian Convent with Jane Fonda, Anne Bancroft and Meg Tilly**_ After a bloody scandal at a Convent outside Montreal, a court-appointed psychiatrist (Jane Fonda) investigates to determine if a devout, but hysterical young woman (Meg Tilly) is fit to stand trial, but she’ll have to get past the intractable Mother Superior (Anne Bancroft) to find the truth. "...