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The Killing of Sister George

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The Killing of Sister George (1968)

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Rotten:3

Average Rating:6.5/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 20 mins

Genre: Television

Synopsis: In Robert Aldrich's taboo-shattering adaptation of Frank Morse's play, June (Beryl Reed) is a lesbian who plays the part of a nun, Sister George, on a successful television soap opera. Her world... In Robert Aldrich's taboo-shattering adaptation of Frank Morse's play, June (Beryl Reed) is a lesbian who plays the part of a nun, Sister George, on a successful television soap opera. Her world collapses when the show's executive director, Mercy Croft (Coral Browne), decides to kill off June's character. As she searches for another acting job, she begins to abuse her lover, Alice (Susannah York), and spirals into a self-destructive free fall. The precociously frank and sultry depiction of June's sexuality earned the film an X rating in many places upon its initial release. Though time has muted the once-controversial aspects of THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE, it remains a historically resonant film, offering the first Hollywood depiction of a woman completely at ease with her love of other women. Reid turns in a brave and moving performance, infusing this landmark of lesbian cinema with an enduring, humane radiance. [More]

Starring: Beryl Reid, Susannah York, Coral Browne, Ronald Fraser

Starring: Beryl Reid, Susannah York, Coral Browne, Ronald Fraser, Patricia Medina

Director: Robert Aldrich

Director: Robert Aldrich
Screenwriter: Lukas Heller
Producer: Robert Aldrich

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Melodrama, slapstick, romance, exploitation, and psychological horror all vie for dominance throughout the film, giving it an air of fickle, feminine hysteria, which the graphic sex scene at the end of the film makes still more difficult to pin down.

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08/08/09
Leo Goldsmith
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Robert Aldrich's "daring" 1968 mating of lesbianism and commerce was, as I recall, considered pretty tame even then; lord knows what it looks like today.

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Talky, exploitive (for 1968) drama focusing on lesbianism.

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Steve Crum
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Quase um Quem Tem Medo de Virginia Woolf? lésbico, este é um filme denso, muitas vezes desagradável como sua protagonista (Reid, fantástica), mas sempre instigante e corajoso.

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Philip Martin
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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Excellently acted version of the play is finally rather dull.

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02/11/04
Ken Hanke
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More wearisome than appealing.

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