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The Trouble With Angels

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The Trouble With Angels

PG

Released Mar 30, 1966

1h 52m

Comedy

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Mary (Hayley Mills) and her friend, Rachel (June Harding), are new students at St. Francis Academy, a boarding school run by the iron fist of Mother Superior (Rosalind Russell). 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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Bosley Crowther

New York Times

It has the quality of hit-or-miss contrivance rather than homely, schoolgirl truth.

May 9, 2005

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Nell Minow

Movie Mom

Silly fluff with top-notch performers. No one else could say "scathingly brilliant" with as much scathing brilliance as Hayley Mills, and Russell is magnificently wry as Mother Superior.

Rated: 4/5

Jul 16, 2004

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Moira Walsh

America Magazine

It is frighteningly easy to get nuns all wrong on the screen and terribly difficult to do them justice, especially today when their proper identity is being so hotly debated inside as well as outside convents.

Dec 31, 2019

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Eve Tushnet

Patheos

An essentially charming confection.

Sep 19, 2019

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Sergio Benítez

Espinof

The sympathy that the two hours modestly deliver is enough to keep you with a half perpetual smile and leave, in the end, with a pleasant feeling. [Full Review in Spanish]

Aug 23, 2019

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Steve Crum

Video-Reviewmaster.com

Nun comedy fluff Roz Russell and Hayley Mills fills family bill.

Rated: 3/5

Feb 17, 2008

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Michael R

So sweet, so adorable, I just threw up all over my television set.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

12/06/24

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Mike P

Slight teen fare from the 60s starting Disney's IT girl Haley Mills. A clique of normal girls with normal problems try to survive a strict Catholic Boarding school run by Mother Superior Rosalind Russell. This is really a troubled teen and taskmaster teacher formula; see Blackboard Jungle; Goodbye Mr Tibbe; Dangerous Minds, etc. It's a softer, distaff version of those stories. And as such it's mildly entertaining; could use a little more punch though.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/26/24

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Angelo C

This movie made me cry and laugh and cry again. Wonderful acting by Ms Russell and Mills. It reminded me of a film that after watching it you wanted to join the sisterhood, it was that good. Many parts I enjoyed but the one I enjoyed the most was when the beautiful Logoria sister passed and how Russell cried over the coffin and especially how Mills reacted. That's when she was convinced that she would be a nun, beautiful

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/09/24

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S R

Pretty run of the Hayley Mills with some more adult themes like smoking. Interesting, but tedious and cheap. Saw on TCM.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

01/17/24

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I absolutely love this comedy highly recommend it, James Welch who lives in Arkansas June 1, 2023

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

06/02/23

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Diane B

I watched reruns of this when I was a kid, going to Catholic school, wishing life was more exciting. Who cares about the plot?

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

08/13/22

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Synopsis

Mary (Hayley Mills) and her friend, Rachel (June Harding), are new students at St. Francis Academy, a boarding school run by the iron fist of Mother Superior (Rosalind Russell). 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.

Director: Ida Lupino
Screenwriter: Blanche Hanalis
Production Co: Columbia Pictures, Eaves Movie Ranch
Rating: PG
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 30, 1966, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 16, 2012
Runtime: 1h 52m
Sound Mix: Stereo

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