Sister Mary Explains It All

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.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.[8] Steven Oxman of Variety wrote "Satire tends to date quickly, but Christopher Durang's 1980 black comedy criticizing Catholic rigidity, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You, still has some bite to it, which says a lot about the writer's incisive wit".Oxman concluded that the film might have perhaps remained truer to the original play had Sister Mary delivered her lecture directly to her unseen television audience.
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