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02/02/05
Sister Helen (2004)
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Reviews Counted:13
Fresh:12
Rotten:1
Average Rating:6.9/10
Theatrical Release:Oct 24, 2003 Limited
Synopsis: The world of Sister Helen Travis has unfolded in a manner which most nun's are totally unaccustomed to. Based in New York City, Sister Helen works within the South Bronx as a councillor for... [More]
Director: Rob Fruchtman, Rebecca Cammisa
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01/15/05
A great nun's story.
10/28/03
Though her no-nonsense brand of tough love isn't the stuff of greeting cards, it helped build a remarkably successful halfway house for recovering drug addicts and alcoholics without government help or staff beyond Sister Travis herself.
10/24/03
God bless Sister Helen Travis, with her foul mouth, black wimple… and irascible, abrasive attitude. She might be a bit crazy… but she's also the best thing that's happened to [her charges] in a long time.
10/24/03
If she hadn't become a nun late in life -- after her husband and two of her three kids met tragic deaths -- Sister Helen would have made a great Army drill instructor.
10/23/03
Top CriticMs. Cammisa and Mr. Fruchtman vividly capture the dynamic of tenderness and rage that characterizes Sister Helen's relationship with the 21 men who live under her roof.
10/23/03
Top CriticSister Helen profiles a tough, compassionate servant of God running a half-way house in the South Bronx who tried to give others what she cherished most in life--a second chance.
10/23/03
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10/23/03
Sister Helen is a bona fide original, and her vitality crackles in every frame.
10/23/03
Top CriticShe smacks down addict con games with feisty-old- dame-isms, but the shtick wears thin.
10/21/03
Top CriticSee the true story of Sister Helen and her band of weary men now.
10/13/03
If it weren't 100 percent true, it would be perfectly acceptable as fiction. Real life, it turns out, CAN be interesting.
10/13/03
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10/13/03
Sister Helen is a larger than life character whose good will carries this necessary documentary forward by the urgency of her mission.
10/13/03
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