Nasty Habits

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Nasty Habits

PG

1976

1h 36m

Comedy

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Nuns (Glenda Jackson, Sandy Dennis, Melina Mercouri) look and act like the Watergate conspirators as they thirst for power in a Philadelphia convent.

Steven K. Blevins

Gay Community News (Boston)

What results ranges from the dull to the divine.

Sep 13, 2022

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Bernard Drew

Gannett News Service

Nasty Habits could easily have been a constant joy instead of being merely an intermittent one.

Nov 1, 2019

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Ruth Batchelor

Los Angeles Free Press

The bad taste here doesn't work because, (a), the director cannot direct comedy and (b), he script isn't funny, only the premise, and that's too outdated.

Oct 23, 2019

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Clancy Sigel

The Spectator

Nasty Habits is both too cute, a radical-chic Going My Way, and too timid.

Oct 23, 2015

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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

Spirituality & Practice

This comic tale about corruption in pious places packs a lively moral wallop!

Jan 23, 2004

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totally engaging political comedy

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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eric b

This strangely forgotten film is a wonderful satire of the then-fresh Watergate scandal. The Nixon administration's misdeeds are transported to a nunnery, in which the contentious election of a new abbess leads to bugged rooms and a strategic burglary that erupts into public scandal. Glenda Jackson is typically flawless as the ice-cold veteran who pulls the strings, but the stellar cast also includes Geraldine Page, Anne Meara, Sandy Dennis (hilarious as an oblivious dimwit) and Eli Wallach. The pious should be forewarned, however: These nuns are hardly filled with loving reverence. They conspire, smoke, curse and even have sex. Director Michael Lindsay-Hogg had been working in British television in the years preceding "Nasty Habits," but he probably learned something about internal power struggles from his previous feature: the infamous Beatles documentary "Let It Be."

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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In an election for head abbess, two nuns square off in a microcosm of Washington politics complete with surreptitious break-ins, thefts and wiretaps. The movie's combination of serious satire and mere frivolity make it a bit hard to grasp where the director is going with all this, while the one-sided approach to the plot limits its effectiveness. There are some funny moments, and some clever commentary and jokes about the Catholic Church, but in the long run, Nasty Habits is superficial and tedious. Maybe you have to be in the clergy or feminist/.lesbian fully appreciate it ('it's a Catholic thing; you wouldn't understand)) but I thought it was way too long and downright tedious. Monty Python meets My Dinner WIth Andre.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/16/23

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Audience Member

funny movie. Worth seeing for Sandy Dennis dressed up like a man!

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/22/23

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Synopsis

Nuns (Glenda Jackson, Sandy Dennis, Melina Mercouri) look and act like the Watergate conspirators as they thirst for power in a Philadelphia convent.

Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Producer: Robert Enders
Rating: PG
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (DVD): Aug 19, 2014
Runtime: 1h 36m