The Thieving Headmistress

June. 06,2006      
Rating:
7.9
Trailer Synopsis Cast

A Headmistress steals from her own school. As a young girl Colleen McCabe asks a priest in confessional "What is sin?" Thirty years later she is found out for practising it. An ex-nun,she leaves the convent because she becomes disillusioned with spiritual matters and goes into teaching, being appointed headmistress of the John Rigby School in London. Along with a small coterie of chosen staff members to act as her spies,she misappropriates half a million pounds from school funds which she spends on luxury goods and a trip on the Orient Express. Meanwhile the school suffers,having to use ancient text books and pupils as cleaners. She is tried,although admitted to hospital for depression on the trial day, and sentenced to five years in jail, later reduced to four. The film alternates dramatized scenes of Colleen's misbehaviour with interviews with those who knew her.

Pauline Quirke as  Colleen McCabe
Denis Lawson as  Father Plunkett
Peter Cellier as  Father O'Malley
Mary Roscoe as  Maureen Stapley
Richard Hope as  Auditor Andy Pert
David Holt as  Mr. Huckerby
Hannah Walters as  Ms. Wallis

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Reviews

Cebalord
2006/06/06

Very best movie i ever watch

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Raetsonwe
2006/06/07

Redundant and unnecessary.

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Invaderbank
2006/06/08

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

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Juana
2006/06/09

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

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