Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
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.
- court
- nun
- quebec
- hypnosis
- montreal
- canada
- based on play or musical
- trial
- chain smoking
- psychiatrist
- mother superior
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Jane Fonda
Dr. Martha Louise Livingston
Meg Tilly
Sister Agnes
Anne Bancroft
Mother Miriam Ruth
Anne Pitoniak
Dr. Livingston's Mother
- Winston Rekert — Det. Larry Langevin
- Gratien Gélinas — Father Martineau
- Guy Hoffmann — Justice Joseph Leveau
- Gabriel Arcand — Monsignor
- Françoise Faucher — Eve LeClaire
- Jacques Tourangeau — Eugene Lyon
- Janine Fluet — Sister Marguerite
- Deborah Grover — Sister Anne
- Michele George — Sister Susanna
- Samantha Langevin — Sister Jeannine
- Jacqueline Blais — Sister David Marie
- Directed
- Norman Jewison
- Written
- John Pielmeier
Production
- Rating
- 6.3 / 10 · 142 ratings
- Studio
- Columbia Pictures
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