Shanley adapted his own play and managed to keep it from seeming stagebound without losing the tight focus of the original. The Catholic school experience circa 1964.
Head nun/dictator is absolutely certain about the validity of all the traditional rules and values of the church and her school and is willing to crush anyone to maintain them intact. The winds of change are coming...literally depicted here...but she seeth not.
Well acted by all hands. Unfortunately Streep's tremulous meltdown at the very end confessing existential doubt clunked badly for me and ruined everything we had just sat through. For me it was a "huh?" moment. Too bad.
5
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