The Trouble With Angels

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The Trouble With Angels

PG

1966

1h 52m

Comedy

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Mary (Hayley Mills) and her friend, Rachel (June Harding), are new students at St. Francis Academy, a boarding school run by the iron fist of Mother Superior (Rosalind Russell). The immature teens grow bored and begin playing pranks on both the unsuspecting nuns and their unpleasant classmates, becoming a constant thorn in Mother Superior's side. However, as the years pass, Mary and Rachel slowly mature and begin to see the nuns in a different light.

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Bosley Crowther

New York Times

05/09/2005

It has the quality of hit-or-miss contrivance rather than homely, schoolgirl truth.

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Nell Minow

Movie Mom

07/16/2004

4/5

Silly fluff with top-notch performers. No one else could say "scathingly brilliant" with as much scathing brilliance as Hayley Mills, and Russell is magnificently wry as Mother Superior.

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Moira Walsh

America Magazine

12/31/2019

It is frighteningly easy to get nuns all wrong on the screen and terribly difficult to do them justice, especially today when their proper identity is being so hotly debated inside as well as outside convents.

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Eve Tushnet

Patheos

09/19/2019

An essentially charming confection.

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Sergio Benítez

Espinof

08/23/2019

The sympathy that the two hours modestly deliver is enough to keep you with a half perpetual smile and leave, in the end, with a pleasant feeling. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Steve Crum

Video-Reviewmaster.com

02/17/2008

3/5

Nun comedy fluff Roz Russell and Hayley Mills fills family bill.

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Keith B B

@Okbullard Dec 29

It was ok and had a few interesting moments but was so predictable. It's obviously geared for younger teens or less in age.

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Amy G

@Amytheshort Dec 17

Hailey Mills does a great job with her character

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Michael R

@RT76948069 12/06/2024

So sweet, so adorable, I just threw up all over my television set.

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Mike P

@RT09890132 03/26/2024

Slight teen fare from the 60s starting Disney's IT girl Haley Mills. A clique of normal girls with normal problems try to survive a strict Catholic Boarding school run by Mother Superior Rosalind Russell. This is really a troubled teen and taskmaster teacher formula; see Blackboard Jungle; Goodbye Mr Tibbe; Dangerous Minds, etc. It's a softer, distaff version of those stories. And as such it's mildly entertaining; could use a little more punch though.

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Angelo C

@RT29835010 03/09/2024

This movie made me cry and laugh and cry again. Wonderful acting by Ms Russell and Mills. It reminded me of a film that after watching it you wanted to join the sisterhood, it was that good. Many parts I enjoyed but the one I enjoyed the most was when the beautiful Logoria sister passed and how Russell cried over the coffin and especially how Mills reacted. That's when she was convinced that she would be a nun, beautiful

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S R

@ScottR 01/17/2024

Pretty run of the Hayley Mills with some more adult themes like smoking. Interesting, but tedious and cheap. Saw on TCM.

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Synopsis

Mary (Hayley Mills) and her friend, Rachel (June Harding), are new students at St. Francis Academy, a boarding school run by the iron fist of Mother Superior (Rosalind Russell). The immature teens grow bored and begin playing pranks on both the unsuspecting nuns and their unpleasant classmates, becoming a constant thorn in Mother Superior's side. However, as the years pass, Mary and Rachel slowly mature and begin to see the nuns in a different light.

Director: Ida Lupino
Screenwriter: Blanche Hanalis
Production Co: Columbia Pictures, Eaves Movie Ranch
Rating: PG
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 30, 1966, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 16, 2012
Runtime: 1h 52m
Sound Mix: Stereo