Novice ( Novitiate )

Novice (DVD) (*)

$20.99

Original Title: Novitiate
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Sundance Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Arabic ( Subtitles )
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
German ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
118 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Alternative Footage
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Commentary
Deleted Scenes
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2017 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Maggie Betts

Written By:
Maggie Betts

Actors:
Melissa Leo ..... Reverend Mother
Lisa Stewart ..... Sister Genevieve
Alyssa Brindley ..... Sister Kate
Chelsea Lopez ..... Sister Charlotte
Liana Liberato ..... Sister Emily
Eline Powell ..... Sister Candace
Margaret Qualley ..... Sister Cathleen
Morgan Saylor ..... Sister Evelyn
Rebecca Dayan ..... Sister Emanuel
Hannah Renèe Jackson ..... Sister Anne
Marco St. John ..... Father Luca
Julianne Nicholson ..... Nora Harris
Eliza Stella Mason ..... Cathleen Age 7
Bill Shick ..... Local Priest
Danny Vinson ..... Rob - Church Usher
Chris Zylka ..... Chuck Harris
Angela Fox ..... Sister Gloria
Neva Howell ..... Sister Eleanor
Sasha Mason ..... Cathleen Age 12
Peggy Walton-Walker ..... Nun Teacher
Ashley Bell ..... Sister Margaret
Rosemary Brown ..... Miss Williams
Gabe Beutel-Gunn ..... Nora's Boyfriend
Dianna Agron ..... Sister Mary Grace
Maddie Hasson ..... Sister Sissy
Marshall Chapman ..... Sister Louisa
Denis O'Hare ..... Archbishop McCarthy
Emily Conley ..... Blessed Sorrow
Darla Pelton-Perez ..... Parent
Lance Sutton ..... Catholic Priest
Walter Swierk ..... Priest
Brian Abston ..... Father
Robert Happy Allen ..... Church Dad
Kirk H. Andersen ..... Churchgoer
Emma Barberi ..... Blessed Sorrows Student
Kamryn Boyd ..... Blessed Sorrows Student
Kurstan Buck ..... Student
Timothy Carr ..... Churchgoer
Lucie Carroll ..... Professed Nun
Courtney Cook ..... 2nd Year Novice Nun 1
Kenzie Davis ..... Student on School Bus
Francis Dobrisky ..... Wedding Attendee
Juliana Dougherty ..... Blessed Sorrows Student
Kalista Dwyer ..... Cathleen's Sister
Tallie Fausnaught ..... Cathleen's Sister
Bryan Fields ..... Church Goer
Sydney Franklin ..... Churchgoer
Shayna-Raye Funderburk ..... Cathleen's Sister
Kerry Graul ..... Churchgoer
Ashley Hargrove ..... Sister Nun
Stacy Harris ..... Parent / Churchgoer
Lacy Hartselle ..... Sister Theresa
Sydney Hoover ..... Blessed Sorrows Student
Lyndsey Iellimo ..... Novice Nun
Abram Knott ..... Alter Boy
Nettie Kraft ..... Friend of Nora's
Julia Leigh ..... Blessed Sorrows Student
Audrey Louise ..... Cathleen's Sister
Susie Monick ..... Professed Nun
Rachel Mae Moore ..... Cathleen's Sister
Jeromy Nichols ..... Churchgoer
Melissa Nyenhuis ..... Wedding attendee
Emma Grace Peper ..... Blessed Sorrows Student
Adele Pomerenke ..... Cathleen's Sister
Monty Powers ..... Parent of Nun
Jordan Price ..... Blessed Sorrows Student
Jenny Revord ..... Professed Nun
Kadence Riggs ..... Churchgoer
Debbie Swierk ..... Blessed Sorrows Nun
Anna Swiney ..... Blessed Sorrow's Student
Shelton Tison ..... Altar Boy
Phillip Trammel ..... Novitiate Parent
Kathy Walton ..... Professed Nun
Tonya Webb ..... Parent / Churchgoer
Jeffrey Wilkerson ..... Church Goer
Kaitlyn Williams ..... Cathleen's Sister
Cecilia Wyle ..... Professed Nun

Synopsis:

1964. Cathleen Harris, in her late teens, has resided at the Convent of the Beloved Rose in her home state in the American south for close to two years, first as a postulant for six months, before taking her first vows to become a novice. Unlike the other postulants and novices, Sister Cathleen was raised in a household without religion, let alone Catholicism. As such, her decision to become a nun, which went against her divorced mother's wishes, may be more secure in her mind than her colleagues for which this life course may be more bred within them. The convent is led by the Mother Abbess, Reverend Mother Marie Saint Clare, whose entire life is this convent off of where she not stepped foot in forty years. Reverend Mother believes she is the voice of God within the walls of the convent, and thus does not tolerate any of the sisters questioning her authority. She also believes that the Catholicism which she has known all her life is perfect. When she receives an edict regarding the Second Vatican Council - more commonly referred to as Vatican II - which, opened in 1962 as a process to make the Catholic church more open to modern ideals, she refuses to implement any of the changes, let alone discuss the edict with any of the sisters, especially with the likes of Sister Mary Grace, the Mistress of Postulants and Novices who has more contemporary views of the church. Sister Cathleen's drive to become a nun is set against this backdrop, her process which is not as easy as it appears to the others, and whether she makes it to nun is affected by the Reverend Mother's strict methods and refusal to modernize.

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