Connection
Sister Mary Explains It All is a american film of genre Drama directed by Marshall Brickman released in USA on 27 may 2001 with Diane Keaton
Sister Mary Explains It All (2001)
If you like this film, let us know!
Add to a movie listReleased in USA 27 may 2001
Length 1h17
Directed by Marshall Brickman
OriginUSA
Themes Films about religion
Rating57%
Sister Mary Explains It All is a 2001 satirical dark comedy film written by Christopher Durang and directed by Marshall Brickman. The film, based upon Durang's 1979 play Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, and starring Diane Keaton in the title role, premiered on the Showtime network.
Synopsis
Sister Mary (Diane Keaton) is an authoritarian Catholic nun who teaches children. Her teaching is heavily influenced by her fanatical beliefs. Four of her former pupils, Gary (Brian Benben), Aloysius (Wallace Langham), Angela (Laura San Giacomo) and Philomena (Jennifer Tilly), return to the school to show her how deeply her strict views on faith and sin have affected their lives.Actors
Diane Keaton
(Sister Mary Ignatius)
Brian Benben
(Gary Sullivan)
Wallace Langham
(Aloysius Benheim)
Laura San Giacomo
(Angela DiMarco)
Jennifer Tilly
(Philomena Rostovich)
Comments
Leave comment :
Suggestions of similar film to Sister Mary Explains It All
There are 133 films with the same actors, 3 films with the same director, 87586 with the same cinematographic genres (including 3306 with exactly the same 3 genres than Sister Mary Explains It All), 3314 films with the same themes, to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked Sister Mary Explains It All, you will probably like those similar films :
Annie Hall (1977)
, 1h33Directed by Woody Allen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about films, Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane, Shelley Duvall, Paul Simon
Rating79%
The comedian Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) is trying to understand why his relationship with Annie Hall (Diane Keaton) ended a year ago. Growing up in New York, he vexed his mother with impossible questions about the emptiness of existence, but he was precocious about his innocent sexual curiosity.
The Godfather Part III (1990)
, 2h43Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Mob film, Action, Crime
Themes Films about immigration, Mafia films, Seafaring films, Films about religion, Transport films, Gangster films
Actors Al Pacino, Andy García, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Sofia Coppola, Eli Wallach
Rating75%
In 1979, as Michael Corleone is approaching 60, he regrets his ruthless rise to power, and is especially guilt-ridden for having his brother, Fredo, murdered. He has semi-retired from the Mafia, leaving the Corleone family's criminal interests under enforcer Joey Zasa's control. Michael uses his tremendous wealth and power in an attempt to rehabilitate his reputation via numerous charitable acts. Michael and Kay divorced in 1960, and Kay was given custody of their children, Anthony and Mary.
Sleeper (1973)
, 1h29Directed by Woody Allen
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Romance, Comic science fiction
Themes Films about religion, Comedy science fiction films, Films set in the future, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Dystopian films, Robot films
Actors Diane Keaton, Woody Allen, John Beck, Mews Small, Bartlett Robinson, Don Keefer
Rating70%
Miles Monroe (Woody Allen), a jazz musician and owner of the "Happy Carrot" health-food store in 1973, is subjected to cryopreservation without his consent, and not revived for 200 years. The scientists who revive him are members of a rebellion: 22nd-century America seems to be a police state, ruled by a dictator about to implement a secret plan known as the "Aries Project". The rebels hope to use Miles as a spy to infiltrate the Aries Project, because he is the only member of this society without a known biometric identity.
The Stand (TV miniseries) (1994)
, 6h6Directed by Mick Garris
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Adventure, Horror, Romance, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
Themes Medical-themed films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Transport films, Films set in the future, Demons in film, Films about viral outbreaks, Political films, Road movies, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Gary Sinise, Molly Ringwald, Jamey Sheridan, Rob Lowe, Laura San Giacomo, Miguel Ferrer
Rating70%
At a government laboratory in rural California, a weaponized version of influenza (called Project Blue) is accidentally released, immediately wiping out everyone on staff except for military policeman Charles Campion and his family, who flee the base. However, Campion is already infected by the superflu, nicknamed "Captain Trips", and spreads it to the outside world. That evening, Campion crashes his car at a gas station in East Texas where Stu Redman (Gary Sinise) and some friends have gathered. When they investigate, they find Campion dying of the flu next to his wife and baby daughter, who are already dead. Campion tells Stu with his dying breath that he was followed from the base by a mysterious figure, and states "You can't outrun the Dark Man". The next day, the U.S. military arrive to quarantine the town. While the other townspeople quickly become ill and die, Stu remains healthy and is confined at a CDC facility in Vermont order to study a possible cure. This proves futile and the superflu rages unchecked, causing civilization to collapse and killing over 99% of the population of the entire world in less than two months.
Directed by David Beaird
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about religion
Actors Patrick Warburton, Marie Matiko, Eric Roberts, Jennifer Tilly, Kurt Fuller, Austin Pendleton
Rating61%
After a series of bad relationships, the last one ending with his lover injuring him with a hoe while they stand arguing on the street fully nude in view of the cops and his neighbors, Maxwell Bright resolves to find his fantasy woman: obedient and submissive. His dissolute friends goad him into ordering a mail-order bride from China.
Atlit (2015)
, 1h31Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Géraldine Nakache, Judith Chemla, Yaël Abecassis, Arsinée Khanjian, Makram J. Khoury
Rating59%
Israël, 1995, la paix est enfin tangible. Dans la petite ville d’Atlit, Cali retrouve ses deux sœurs, Darel et Asia, pour vendre la maison héritée de leurs parents. Entre complicité et fous rires réapparaissent les doutes et les vieilles querelles, ainsi que d’étranges convives qui sèment un joyeux bordel. Le 4 novembre, Yitzhak Rabin est assassiné, le processus de paix est anéanti mais les trois sœurs refusent d’abandonner l’espoir.
Palindromes (2005)
, 1h40Directed by Todd Solondz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Films about families, Pregnancy films, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, La sexualité des mineurs, Films about pedophilia, Films about Jews and Judaism, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Will Denton, Matthew Faber, Sharon Wilkins, Shayna Levine, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Hillary B. Smith
Rating66%
The film opens with a funeral for a young woman; the deceased is Dawn Wiener, the protagonist from Solondz's Welcome to the Dollhouse, who went to college, gained a lot of weight, became pregnant, and committed suicide. Her brother Mark (Matthew Faber, reprising his role) reads the eulogy while Dawn's tearful parents (Angela Pietropinto and Bill Buell) sit in the audience.
Saved! (2004)
, 1h32Directed by Brian Dannelly
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Pregnancy films, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films about religion, LGBT-related film
Actors Jena Malone, Mandy Moore, Macaulay Culkin, Eva Amurri, Patrick Fugit, Heather Matarazzo
Rating66%
Teenager Mary Cummings (Jena Malone), who has "been born again her whole life," is about to enter her senior year at American Eagle Christian High School near Baltimore. She and her two best friends, Hilary Faye (Mandy Moore) and Veronica (Elizabeth Thai), have formed a girl group called the Christian Jewels. Mary’s "perfect Christian boyfriend" Dean Withers (Chad Faust) tells her, as they’re swimming underwater, that he thinks he's gay. In her shock, Mary hits her head in the pool and has a vision in which Jesus tells her that she must do everything she can to help Dean. Hoping for a sign, Mary goes to a shooting range with Hilary Faye, who has a "spiritual solution for everything" and tells Mary (not knowing about the situation with Dean) that if all else fails, Jesus could still restore their "spiritual and emotional virginity." Believing that Jesus will restore her purity, Mary sacrifices her virginity to have sex with Dean in an attempt to restore his heterosexuality.
Lilies of the Field (1963)
, 1h34Directed by Ralph Nelson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about religion
Actors Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Dan Frazer, Jester Hairston, Stanley Adams, Bobby Driscoll
Rating74%
Homer Smith (Sidney Poitier) is an itinerant handyman/jack-of-all-trades who stops at a farm in the Arizona desert to obtain some water for his car. There he sees several women working on a fence, very ineptly. The women, who speak very little English, introduce themselves as German, Austrian and Hungarian nuns. The mother superior, the leader of the nuns, persuades him to do a small roofing repair. He stays overnight, assuming that he will be paid in the morning. Next day, Smith tries to persuade the mother superior to pay him by quoting Luke 10:7, "The laborer is worthy of his hire." Mother Maria Marthe (Lilia Skala, called "Mother Maria"), responds by asking him to read another Bible verse from the Sermon on the Mount: "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin. And yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Suzie Gold (2004)
, 1h34Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Summer Phoenix, Iddo Goldberg, Stanley Townsend, Rebecca Front, Sophie Winkleman, Joseph Long
Rating56%
The film stars Summer Phoenix as the title character, in the role of a young Jewish woman living in London with a sister who is about to marry a young Jewish man. Breaking with the ideas of her traditionally orthodox family, Suzie falls in love with Darren (Leo Gregory), who happens not to be Jewish. She fears introducing him to her family because of their opposition to marrying outside of one's faith.