The Calling (2009/III)

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Director:

Jan Dunn

Writer:

Jan Dunn (writer)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

You enter for one reason, you stay for another.

Plot:

Joanna - a university student - leaves her course to become a nun.

Cast

Brenda Blethyn	...	Sister Ignatious
Emily Beecham	...	Joanna
Susannah York	...	The Prioress
Rita Tushingham	...	Sister Gertrude
Amanda Donohoe	...	Trish
Chloe Sirene	...	Vivie
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
David Bark-Jones	...	Vince
Nick Bartlett	...	Eddie
Susannah Harker	...	Sister Ambrose
Pauline McLynn	...	Sister Hilda
Corin Redgrave	...	The Bishop
Justin Salinger	...	Father Kieren
Joanna Scanlan	...	Sister Kevin
Nicola Stewart	...	Sister Ignatious's Daughter
Tom Stuart	...	Clive
Harriet Thorpe	...	Consuela
Sean Wilton	...	Dave

Country:

UK

Filming Locations:

Canterbury, Kent, England, UK

Company:

Medb Films

Trivia:

Unlike her first two screenplays, Gypo and Ruby Blue, which were written in prose format with a predominantly improvised dialogue, every line of dialogue in The Calling is scripted. She handed one scene to Brenda Blethyn and Rita Tushingham to edit down whilst in make-up, from a long eight minute sequence to just a three minute scene, not wanting to take the responsibility of cutting any of her much admired actress's lines.