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Novitiate

Name: Novitiate
Director: Margaret Betts
Genre: Drama
Released: 2017-10-27
Cast: Margaret Qualley, Melissa Leo, Julianne Nicholson, Dianna Agron, Lisa Stewart

Drama

In the early 1960s, during the Vatican II era, a young woman training to become a nun struggles with issues of faith, sexuality and the changing church.

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Cast

Margaret QualleyMelissa LeoJulianne NicholsonDianna AgronLisa StewartMorgan SaylorLiana LiberatoRebecca DayanEline PowellChelsea LopezMaddie HassonDenis O'Hare

Director

Margaret Betts

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