Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other title: | Sex in a cold climate.
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| Other authors / contributors: | Mullan, Peter.
Higson, Frances.
McEwan, Geraldine.
Duff, Anne-Marie.
Noone, Nora-Jane.
Duffy, Dorothy.
Walsh, Eileen, 1977-
Murray, Mary.
Smith, Britta.
Humphries, Stephen.
Scottish Screen (Organization)
Film Council (Great Britain)
Bord Scannán na hÉireann.
Momentum Pictures.
PFP Films.
Temple Films.
Testimony Films.
Channel Four (Great Britain)
Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm)
Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm)
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| ISBN: | 0788850881
9780788850882
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| Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 2002.
"Inspired by the documentary Sex in a cold climate."--Credits.
Special features: documentary "Sex in a cold climate" (1997; 50 min.) / Testimony Films for Channel Four ; producer [and director], Steve Humphries ; narrator, Dervia Kirwan.
Director of photography, Nigel Willoughby ; editor, Colin Monie ; music composer, Craig Armstrong ; costume designer, Trisha Biggar ; production designer, Mark Leese ; special effects supervisor, Steve Breheney.
Geraldine McEwan, Anne-Marie Duff, Nora-Jane Noone, Dorothy Duffy, Eileen Walsh, Mary Murray, Britta Smith, Frances Healy, Eithne McGuinness.
DVD, NTSC; region 1 (North America); widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital.
English or French soundtrack, with optional English SDH, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.
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| Summary: | In The Magdalene sisters, in Ireland in the 1960s, women were sent to the Magdalene sisterhood asylum because of 'sinful' behavior. They all had to work in the laundry, where the strict nuns would break everyone's wills through sadistic punishment. The documentary Sex in a cold climate presents a disturbing portrait of Magdalene asylums, run by unfeeling and sometimes sadistic Catholic nuns in Ireland for over a hundred years. The purpose of the asylums, named after the repentant biblical prostitute Mary Magdalene, was to correct the supposed sexual deviance of young women. The criteria of deviance were so broad some Magdalenes didn't know why they had been put away. The film follows the stories of four women who were detained in Magdalen asylums between the 1940s and the 1960s.
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| Target Audience: | MPAA rating: R; for violence/cruelty, nudity, sexual content and language.
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| Standard no.: | 786936233094
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| Publisher's no.: | 33435 Miramax Home Entertainment
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