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Release Date: August 1, 2003 (NY, LA; wider release date: August 15)

Studio: Miramax Films

Director: Peter Mullan

Screenwriter: Peter Mullan

Starring: Anne-Marie Duff, Dorothy Duffy, Geraldine McEwan, Nora-Jane
Noone, Eileen Walsh

Genre: Drama

MPAA Rating: R (for violence/cruelty, nudity, sexual content and language)

Official Website: Miramax.com/The_Magdalene_Sisters

Plot Summary: From acclaimed director Peter Mullan comes "The Magdalene
Sisters," an unflinching and compelling emotional drama, charting several years
in the young lives of four "fallen women" who were rejected by their families and
abandoned to the mercy of the Catholic Church in 1960s Ireland. While
women's liberation is sweeping the globe, these women are stripped of their
liberty and dignity and condemned to indefinite sentences of servitude in The
Magdalene Laundries, in order to atone for their "sins." The Last Magdalene
Asylum in Ireland closed in 1996, and only since has the true horror of
conditions in these institutions begun to emerge.