The other crucial character is young eighth-grade teacher Sister James, who provides what circumstantial evidence there is against Flynn. Torn between the egotistic adamancy of her superior and the warmth that makes her want to believe in Flynn, the earnest young teacher finds the bubble of her simple belief quite burst. Melissa Baroni puts some flint into this cowed, cloistered Gidget, making her rough introduction to the title commodity poignant. In a smaller role, Kortney Adams brings a crisp pragmatism to her scene as Mrs. Muller, mother of the school’s lone African-American student, the effeminate loner Flynn is suspected of seducing with altar wine and sympathy. Rather than rallying behind Sister Aloysius’s “righteous cause,” the conflicted woman, who just wants her son to graduate and thinks the priest’s attention at least partly a boon, begs the nun to back off. “Sometimes things aren’t black and white,” she says. “And sometimes they are,” shoots back Sister Aloysius. But not in this play.
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- Power mad
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Roman Polanski in his 1971 adaptation of Shakespeare’s Scottish play opts for grim, sodden, literal realism.
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Stewart's decision to return to the stage has all but halted his film career. "I haven't talked to my agent for months,” he says. “We have nothing to say to one another."
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