The Magdalene Sisters

Starring: Geraldine McEwan, NoraJane Noone Director: Peter Mullan Original UK Premiere: 2003 Dvd Release: 1st September, 2003 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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A True story based on young women who where detained at Magdalene Asylums for crimes they didnt commit. The story starts of at a family wedding where margaret is raped by her cousin & has shamed her family, Bernadette is a pretty orphan girl who get the attension of boys & is accused of flirting with them & Rose/Patricia has given birth to a child out of wedlock. All three are sent to a Magdalene asylum where they must put up with torture, hair being hacked off, Humiliation & Sexual assult as the place is run by Cruel Nuns & a strict priest. Truely Shocking.

Peter Mullan is a Scottish actor who has been appearing in films since 1990. Mullan was born in Peterhead in the northeast of Scotland, somewhat removed from the sectarian tensions in the West of Scotland. He was the fifth child of eight born to a devoutly Roman Catholic mother & a Scottish father. The family moved to Cardonald, a working class suburb on the south side of Glasgow where Mullans father worked as a tool-maker & lab technician. An alcoholic & latterly a sufferer from lung cancer, Charles Mullan became increasingly tyrannical & abusive. When he was 14, Peter tried to poison him with sleeping pills. Peter was a member of a street gang while at high school & worked as a bouncer in a number of rough south-side pubs. His father died on the day Peter started his studies at Glasgow University. At University Mullan began acting & continued stage acting after graduation. 84 & Wildcat theatre companies. He had small roles in several Scottish films, including Shallow Grave, Trainspotting & Braveheart & a supporting role in Ken Loach s Riff-Raff.

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