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Lilies of the Field (1963) | User Rating
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DVD Release Date
• R1: Mar 6, 2001
Budget $240,000
MPAA Rating
NR
Running Time
1 hour, 34 minutes
Country USA
Studio United Artists
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Other Titles
• Lilies of the Field
• Lilien auf dem Felde (1963)
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Genre: Drama, Comedy, Religion
Plot: Sidney Poitier--who would later star in such unforgettable films as TO SIR, WITH LOVE; GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER and IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT--won an Academy Award for best actor for his standout performance in this modest, beautiful 1963 film. LILIES OF THE FIELD is directed tenderly and with restraint by Ralph Nelson from a light-handed yet deeply effective screenplay by James Poe, based on a novel by William E. Barrett. Poitier plays the role of Homer Smith, a journeyman laborer, who is roaming the countryside, drifting and working. One day he stops at a farm and meets up with five nuns. Lilia Skala is formidable and endearing as Mother Maria, the highest-ranking sister, who is convinced that God has answered her prayers and sent Homer to fix the roof. Staying and working in the peaceful calm of the Arizona desert, Homer learns more from the nuns than he ever could have anticipated.
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| Directed by |
Ralph Nelson
Father Goose, Charly, Requiem for a Heavyweight |
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| Written by |
| James Poe
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Around the World in Eighty Days, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? |
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North by Northwest, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex | |
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