Watch: Agnes of God 1985 123movies, Full Movie Online – When a dead newborn is found wrapped in bloody sheets in a wastebasket in the bedroom of a young novitiate, psychiatrist Martha Livingston is called in to determine if the seemingly innocent novice, who knows nothing of sex or birth, is competent to stand trial for the baby’s murder. While searching for the answer that her supervisors want, Dr. Livingston finds herself inevitably drawn into searching for the truth about the baby’s conception and death. Despite the lack of cooperation that she receives from her own organization and the church itself, she eventually discovers more than she may have bargained for..
Plot: 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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A movie that makes you think…
This is a superb film. It has great performances, specially from Meg Tilly, as the young nun who has fallen from grace. Neither she, the rest of the sisters, or the psychiatrist sent to investigate the case, can find a satisfactory explanation. What really impressed me about this movie is the way it confronts religious beliefs with skepticism, confrontation that, in turn, is transmitted to the viewer with all its questions. Is what happened a big lie, just the product of the imagination -or distorted faith- of a young woman?. Is it all God’s plan?. If it is so, did he make a mistake?. Is it all a miracle gone wrong?
Suppose the saints would have smoked if tobacco’d been popular back then?
A Golden Globe performance for Meg Tilly and Oscar nominations for Tilly and Anne Bancroft. This is a story that brings into question stigmata, belief, along with the possibility of virgin birth.A nun (Tilly) has a baby, which is found dead, and she is brought up on manslaughter charges. She claims no knowledge of the baby or how to even have a baby.
Jane Fonda, an obvious skeptic, is a psychiatrist appointed to examine the situation. What is a to be a psychiatric examination turns into an investigation of the convent. Secrets come out bit by bit as Nancy Drew, I mean the psychiatrist, discovers the one secret that can explain everything.
But does it? Simple seduction or a miracle? It is left for the viewer to decide.
What is not left to the viewer to decide is the excellent performances by the three stars above. They were miraculous.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 38 min (98 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Drama, Mystery
Director Norman Jewison
Writer John Pielmeier
Actors Jane Fonda, Anne Bancroft, Meg Tilly
Country United States, Canada
Awards Nominated for 3 Oscars. 1 win & 5 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Dolby
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Metrocolor, USA
Film Length 2,700 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm