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Moll Flanders
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Overview

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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Daniel Defoe (character from novel)
Pen Densham (screen story)
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Release Date:
14 June 1996 (USA) more
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The remarkable story of one woman's unbreakable spirit.
Plot:
The daughter of a thief, young Moll is placed in the care of a nunnery after the execution of her mother... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
4 nominations more
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(2 articles)
Pen Densham gets on the court with 'Bill'
 (From Monsters and Critics. 13 August 2009, 2:08 PM, PDT)

Bill Tilden Biopic in the Works
 (From TheMovingPicture. 12 August 2009, 9:19 PM, PDT)

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Moll who? more (35 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Robin Wright Penn ... Moll Flanders (as Robin Wright)

Morgan Freeman ... Hibble

Stockard Channing ... Mrs. Allworthy
John Lynch ... Artist
Brenda Fricker ... Mrs. Mazzawatti
Geraldine James ... Edna
Aisling Corcoran ... Flora
Jim Sheridan ... The Priest
Jeremy Brett ... Artist's Father
Britta Smith ... Artist's Mother
Cathy Murphy ... Polly
Emma McIvor ... Mary
Maria Doyle Kennedy ... Alice

Ger Ryan ... Orphanage Woman
Harry Towb ... Magistrate
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for violence, nudity and sex-related material
Runtime:
123 min | Germany:113 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Trivia:
Jeremy Brett's last film. more
Quotes:
Moll Flanders: We experienced a delirious, timeless peace. more
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Referenced in Film Geek (2005) more
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Moll's Prison Jig more

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Moll who?, 22 September 2008
Author: drrap from Providence, RI

The plot of this film has nearly nothing whatsoever to do with Daniel Defoe's novel; in place of Defoe's brilliant and compelling heroine it substitutes bushels full of ersatz-18th century drivel, pretentious neo-Irish music, and annoying children. Nunneries in England? An unexplained Afro-British man sent on a mission to read a book to an annoying child across the sea? A charitable organization which adopts adult women only if they are virgins? I am certain that if one made a film of "A Christmas Carol" with no Scrooge, no Tiny Tim, and Bob Cratchit as an alcoholic schoolmaster with an illegitimate one-legged daughter living in Sweden, viewers would complain that the story had gone missing -- why not here? It's a shame, as Morgan Freeman gives a memorable performance even in a role which seems dislocated from history, novelistic and actual.

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