Friday, Nov. 6, 2009.
Directed by Norman Jewison Starring Jane Fonda and Anne Bancroft (1985)
Originally a hit play on Broadway, Fonda plays a chain-smoking psychiatrist court-appointed to evaluate a novice (Meg Tilly). The young woman is charged with manslaughter after being discovered unconscious with a dead newborn baby in her room. Dr. Livingston engages in mutual feelings of hostility with the convent’s Mother Superior (Bancroft) as they battle over the soul and sanity of the nun.
Museum of Art and Archaeology Film Series; co-sponsored by the Center for Religion & the Professions. All films shown at 7:00 pm, 106 Pickard Hall. Free and open to the public.