Agnes of God (1985)

Director:	Norman Jewison
Actors:	Anne Bancroft, Jane Fonda, Anne Pitoniak, Meg Tilly, Winston Rekert, Samantha Langevin, Deborah Grover, Jacqueline Blais, Guy Hoffman, Gabriel Arcand, Francoise Faucher, Jacques Tourangeau, Janine Fluet, Gratien Gelinas, Michele George

Nominated for three Oscars, director Norman Jewison's Agnes Of God is a powerful thriller set in the unlikely surroundings of a convent. When fragile young novice Agnes (Meg Tilly) secretly gives birth to a baby and is accused of murder after it is found strangled to death, court-appointed psychiatrist Dr Martha Livingston (Jane Fonda) is straight on the scene to investigate. Faced with a hostile and guarded Mother Superior (Anne Bancroft) who is reluctant to co-operate with her questions, excusing the birth and the murder as an inexplicable act of God, Dr Livingston has no easy task ahead of her...