Lilies of the Field
starring: Sidney Poiter, Lisa Skala, Lisa Mann, Isa Crino, Francesca Jarvis
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Studio: Tcfhe/mgmRelease Date: 01/06/2009Run time: 95 minutesRating: Nr
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Sidney Poitier won an Oscar for this endearing movie about a handyman who thinks he's just passing through a little town in New Mexico, and ends up staying awhile to build a chapel for a cluster of German-speaking nuns. The renowned actor is highly entertaining in his combative exchanges with Lilia Skala, playing a Mother Superior who survived Hitler and makes no bones about bullying the goodhearted, itinerant worker into doing more and more for her. The film has an ambling, easygoing style with several memorable moments, not least of all is Poitier leading his holy hostesses through verses of the gospel song "Amen." Lilies is directed by the late Ralph Nelson, a pioneering director of live television who also made a number of popular feature films with notable performances (Jackie Gleason in Requiem for a Heavyweight, Cary Grant in Father Goose, Cliff Robertson in Charly) in the 1960s and 1970s. --Tom Keogh
Studio: Tcfhe/mgmRelease Date: 01/06/2009Run time: 95 minutesRating: Nr
Amazon.com essential video:
Sidney Poitier won an Oscar for this endearing movie about a handyman who thinks he's just passing through a little town in New Mexico, and ends up staying awhile to build a chapel for a cluster of German-speaking nuns. The renowned actor is highly entertaining in his combative exchanges with Lilia Skala, playing a Mother Superior who survived Hitler and makes no bones about bullying the goodhearted, itinerant worker into doing more and more for her. The film has an ambling, easygoing style with several memorable moments, not least of all is Poitier leading his holy hostesses through verses of the gospel song "Amen." Lilies is directed by the late Ralph Nelson, a pioneering director of live television who also made a number of popular feature films with notable performances (Jackie Gleason in Requiem for a Heavyweight, Cary Grant in Father Goose, Cliff Robertson in Charly) in the 1960s and 1970s. --Tom Keogh
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- Lilies of the Field
Wasn't as good as I thought it would be.Disappointing to say the least.
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- Money Is Not Everything
Sidney Poitier plays Homer Smith, a wandering handyman, who, while travelling through Arizona, runs intoa group of very impoverished nuns.He stops at their delapidated farm house to fix a leaky roof.To his great surprise, the Mother Superior does not have any money to pay him for his work;she, also, to his astonishment, wants him to build them a chapel for free too.Needless to say, Homer is flabbergasted and hesitates, at first, to begin the work;yet, he single-handedly begins erecting ... Read More
Rating: - Heartwarming movie.
I have enjoyed this movie on TV several times and decided I wanted to have it so I can watch it anytime I wanted.
Rating: - A great classic
I first saw this movie when I was school age. Now I've seen it again in my fifties and understand it's historical significance, I was truly blown away by how well it has held up artistically as a brilliant well paced screenplay (based on novel) with first class acting by all the main characters. Sidney Poitier was truly the "Jackie Robinson" of Hollywood, being the first black man to win a major movie award for his starring role in this film.
I collect classic films and this one is definitely ... Read More
Rating: - A Spiritual Garden
"Lilies of the Field" is a masterpiece. Sidney Poitier stars as a returned WWII veteran in a remote part of Arizona. Unexpectedly,a group of nuns give him help-- at a price. They want him to build a chapel. There's much fun arguing between Sidney and the Mother Superior. It's at once entertaining and inspiring.
"Lilies of the Field" is about racial and religious reconciliation. Catholics, Protestants, blacks, Hispanics and whites join together to build a beautiful chapel,a spiritual oasis in ... Read More
- Lilies of the FieldWasn't as good as I thought it would be.Disappointing to say the least.
- Money Is Not EverythingSidney Poitier plays Homer Smith, a wandering handyman, who, while travelling through Arizona, runs intoa group of very impoverished nuns.He stops at their delapidated farm house to fix a leaky roof.To his great surprise, the Mother Superior does not have any money to pay him for his work;she, also, to his astonishment, wants him to build them a chapel for free too.Needless to say, Homer is flabbergasted and hesitates, at first, to begin the work;yet, he single-handedly begins erecting ... Read More
- Heartwarming movie.I have enjoyed this movie on TV several times and decided I wanted to have it so I can watch it anytime I wanted.
- A great classicI first saw this movie when I was school age. Now I've seen it again in my fifties and understand it's historical significance, I was truly blown away by how well it has held up artistically as a brilliant well paced screenplay (based on novel) with first class acting by all the main characters. Sidney Poitier was truly the "Jackie Robinson" of Hollywood, being the first black man to win a major movie award for his starring role in this film.
I collect classic films and this one is definitely ... Read More
- A Spiritual Garden"Lilies of the Field" is a masterpiece. Sidney Poitier stars as a returned WWII veteran in a remote part of Arizona. Unexpectedly,a group of nuns give him help-- at a price. They want him to build a chapel. There's much fun arguing between Sidney and the Mother Superior. It's at once entertaining and inspiring.
"Lilies of the Field" is about racial and religious reconciliation. Catholics, Protestants, blacks, Hispanics and whites join together to build a beautiful chapel,a spiritual oasis in ... Read More
