# ID this movie scene? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 8, 2005, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-movie-scene/307492 "2005-06-08T19:01:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2005, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-movie-scene/307492/1 "2005-06-08T19:01:22Z")
This may be a little distasteful to some, but it’s been bugging me for a while. There is a movie (or play, or TV show) in which a female character complains of her childhood at a Catholic school (or convent) in which she and the other girls were made to, ahem, orally service the nuns. For some reason all I can think of is The Miracle Worker, but that can’t be possible. And that it might have been Jodie Foster, but that seems unlikely as well. This ring any church bells with anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2005, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-movie-scene/307492/2 "2005-06-08T20:05:59Z")
Do you have a more exact quote? Your post sounded as if you were trying to be coy, but it is tickling some memory for me and I think that I might be able to remember the movie if I had a closer quote to the actual dialog. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2005, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-movie-scene/307492/3 "2005-06-08T20:07:37Z")
There’s a recent movie called ‘The Magdalene Sisters’ that sounds like it might be what you’re talking about. > **[The Magdalene Sisters (2002) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318411/)** > > The Magdalene Sisters: Directed by Peter Mullan. With Geraldine McEwan, Anne-Marie Duff, Nora-Jane Noone, Dorothy Duffy. Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters... ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2005, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-movie-scene/307492/4 "2005-06-08T20:15:10Z")
Courtney Love’s character complained about such a thing in _The People Vs. Larry Flynt_. -Joe, three thumbs up ---
**Author:** ![Big\_Norse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/big_norse/32/9954_2.png) [@Big\_Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Norse)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2005, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-movie-scene/307492/5 "2005-06-08T20:18:52Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > There’s a recent movie called ‘The Magdalene Sisters’ that sounds like it might be what you’re talking about. > > [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318411/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318411/) If I remember correctly, in that movie a couple of the girls (at least one) serviced the priest, I think the nuns were just violent and mean. ---
**Author:** ![Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rube_E.Tewesday)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2005, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-movie-scene/307492/6 "2005-06-08T20:24:43Z")
> [@Merijeek](#): > > Courtney Love’s character complained about such a thing in _The People Vs. Larry Flynt_. That’s what immediately came to my mind, too, although it seems unlikely that someone could mistake Courtney Love for Jodie Foster :eek:, or that movie for _The Miracle Worker_ . 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2005, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-movie-scene/307492/7 "2005-06-08T20:35:29Z")
> [@Merijeek](#): > > Courtney Love’s character complained about such a thing in _The People Vs. Larry Flynt_. > > -Joe, three thumbs up Yup, it’s definately in there. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-movie-scene/307492/8 "2005-06-09T04:24:19Z")
Is it possible that you’re thinking of the movie _Agnes of God_? It has Anne Bancroft as one of its stars, which may be why you thought about _The Miracle Worker_. It also stars Meg Tilly, who you may have confused with Jody Foster. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-movie-scene/307492/9 "2005-06-09T05:26:48Z")
But nobody in _Agnes of God_ talks about orally servicing nuns. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-movie-scene/307492/10 "2005-06-09T13:44:03Z")
I think it’s got to be Courtney Love. I’m quite certain it wasn’t _The Magdelene Sisters_, not least for the reason that none of the girls ever became an adult to talk about her past. How I confused her with Foster I’ll never know. How I confused it with _The Miracle Worker_ is likely because the latter had a similar scene of a grown woman talking about her institutionalized days. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-movie-scene/307492/11 "2005-06-09T16:12:44Z")
> [@Walloon](#): > > But nobody in _Agnes of God_ talks about orally servicing nuns. Check out the director’s cut. Just kidding. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-movie-scene/307492/12 "2005-06-09T16:39:55Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > Check out the director’s cut. Oh yeah, the scene with the dentist. I forgot about that.