The read
Audiences rate it 14 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
When a dead newborn is found, wrapped in bloody sheets, in the bedroom wastebasket of a young novice, psychiatrist Martha Livingston is called in to determine if the seemingly innocent novice, who knows nothing of sex or birth, is competent enough to stand trial for the murder of the baby.
Ratings
IMDb6.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes44%
Metacritic52/100
Audiences rate it 14 points higher than critics do.
145 audience votes
Key crew
- Norman JewisonDirector
- Georges DelerueOriginal Music Composer
- John PielmeierScreenplay
Cast
- Jane FondaDr. Martha Louise Livingston
- Meg TillySister Agnes
- Anne BancroftMother Miriam Ruth
- Anne PitoniakDr. Livingston's Mother
- Winston RekertDet. Larry Langevin
- Gratien GélinasFather Martineau
- Guy HoffmannJustice Joseph Leveau
- Gabriel ArcandMonsignor
- Françoise FaucherEve LeClaire
- Jacques TourangeauEugene Lyon
- Janine FluetSister Marguerite
- Deborah GroverSister Anne
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Themes
courtnunquebechypnosismontreal, canadabased on play or musicaltrialchain smokingpsychiatristmother superiorconvent (nunnery)novice