Jane Fonda
Dr. Martha Livingston
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During her investigation, Livingston encounters opposition from the Mother Superior, Sister Miriam ( Anne Bancroft ), pressure from both the court and the church (who want to end this case as quickly and quietly as possible), and is forced to face certain issues that led to her own lapse of faith.
Dr. Martha Livingston (Jane Fonda) is a court-appointed psychiatrist sent to evaluate Sister Agnes (Meg Tilly), a young nun whose infant has been found strangled. With Agnes claiming a virgin ...
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- Norman Jewison
- PG-13
- Jane Fonda
Feb 19, 2021 · There’s terrible trouble at the nunnery where naive young novitiate Sister Agnes (Tilly) is accused of having a baby and strangling it to death, and Doctor Martha Livingston (Fonda) is the court-appointed psychiatrist out for answers: is Agnes competent to stand trial for the murder of the baby?
After she is taken away the mother superior (Anne Bancroft) finds, to her horror, a dead baby in the waste paper basket in Agnes' cell. Leary of sending a Nun to prison the Candian legal system assigns a psychiatrist (Jane Fonda) to Agnes to determine that Agnes is insane and to have her committed.
As Montreal court-appointed psychiatrist Livingston on her first visit to the convent where a baby born to a nun died, Jane Fonda is struck by the candor of Mother Superior Miriam Ruth (Anne Bancroft), whose opinions appear to present a problem, Norman Jewison directing from the play and screenplay by John Pielmeier, in Agnes Of God, 1985.
When a naive novice nun (Meg Tilly) is discovered with a dead newborn in her convent quarters, a court-appointed psychiatrist (Jane Fonda) investigates her case.
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A newborn infant is found dead in a wastebasket in the room of Sister Agnes (Meg Tilly), a young cloistered nun in a convent outside Montreal. She claims to have no memory of the conception or the birth of the child. Dr Martha Livingston (Jane Fonda), a psychiatrist, is appointed by the court to determine whether Sister Agnes is fit to stand ...
