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The Trouble With Angels

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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 May 9, 2005
It has the quality of hit-or-miss contrivance rather than homely, schoolgirl truth. Go to Full Review Nell Minow Movie Mom Jul 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. Go to Full Review Moira Walsh America Magazine Dec 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. Go to Full Review Eve Tushnet Patheos Sep 19, 2019
An essentially charming confection. Go to Full Review Sergio Benítez Espinof Aug 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] Go to Full Review Steve Crum Video-Reviewmaster.com Feb 17, 2008
3/5
Nun comedy fluff Roz Russell and Hayley Mills fills family bill. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Keith B B @Okbullard Dec 29, 2025 It was ok and had a few interesting moments but was so predictable. It's obviously geared for younger teens or less in age. See more Amy G @Amytheshort Dec 17, 2025 Hailey Mills does a great job with her character See more Michael R @RT76948069 Dec 6, 2024 So sweet, so adorable, I just threw up all over my television set. See more Mike P @RT09890132 Mar 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. See more Angelo C @RT29835010 Mar 9, 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 See more S R @ScottR Jan 17, 2024 Pretty run of the Hayley Mills with some more adult themes like smoking. Interesting, but tedious and cheap. Saw on TCM. See more Read all reviews
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Ida Lupino

Director

Rosalind Russell

Mother Superior

Hayley Mills

Mary Clancy

June Harding

Rachel

Binnie Barnes

Sister Celestine

Mary Wickes

Sister Clarissa

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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
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