The Trouble with Angels

  • Comedy
3/29/1966
112
PG

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Mary and her friend, Rachel, are new students at St. Francis Academy, a boarding school run by the iron fist of Mother Superior. The immature teens grow bored and begin playing pranks on both the unsuspecting nuns and their unpleasant classmates, becoming a constant thorn in Mother Superior's side. However, as the years pass, Mary and Rachel slowly mature and begin to see the nuns in a different light.

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  • Wuchak

    A couple of troublemaking girls at a Catholic school/nunnery

    Mary (Hayley Mills) is sent to a Catholic school in Pennsylvania where she constantly causes problems along with her follower Rachel (June Harding). Can Mother Superior (Rosalind Russell) & the other nuns tame these troublemakers before they enter society as adults?

    "The Trouble with Angels" (1966) was based on the 1962 biography Life with Mother Superior by Jane Trahey, which chronicled her years at an all-girls Catholic high school near Chicago. This explains the low-key approach to the episodic material. In other words, this is a generally realistic drama with several fun moments, but not a zany comedy.

    While not in the same league as The Parent Trap (1961) and...

    December 13, 2020

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