Brut Productions
Directed by Michael Lindsay-Hoggs
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Warner Archive Collection)
Glenda Jackson plays a nun scheming to become abbess when the former one dies. Her main competition is a young nun who is openly having an affair with a priest and advocates freedom for the other nuns. Jackson stoops to electronic surveillance and break-ins to disgrace the other nun. After she wins, the disgraced nun is excommunicated but engages in a public campaign to expose Jackson and the abbey. The whole thing is supposed to be a satire on Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal, which only becomes obvious towards the end. Otherwise, a forgettable comedy of nuns doing bad things in unfunny ways.
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