The Letters

Name: The Letters
Genre: Drama
Released: December 4, 2015
Duration: 114 min
Rating: 25
Cast: Juliet Stevenson, Kranti Redkar, Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal, Max von Sydow, Priya Darshini

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Freestyle Releasing | Release Date: December 4, 2015 | PG

Starring: Juliet Stevenson, Kranti Redkar, Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal, Max von Sydow, Priya Darshini, Rutger Hauer, Tillotama Shome, Vijay Maurya, Vivek Gomber

Summary: Mother Teresa, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, is considered one of the greatest humanitarians of modern times. Her selfless commitment changed hearts, lives and inspired millions throughout the world. The Letters, as told through personal letters she wrote over the last 40 years of her life, reveal a troubled and vulnerable woman whoMother Teresa, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, is considered one of the greatest humanitarians of modern times. Her selfless commitment changed hearts, lives and inspired millions throughout the world. The Letters, as told through personal letters she wrote over the last 40 years of her life, reveal a troubled and vulnerable woman who grew to feel an isolation and an abandonment by God. The story is told from the point of view of a Vatican priest charged with the task of investigating acts and events following her death. He recounts her life’s work, her political oppression, her religious zeal and her unbreakable spirit. [Freestyle Releasing]… Expand

Director: William Riead

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: PG

Runtime: 114 min

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Gary Goldstein

Dec 3, 2015

A biopic about Mother Teresa could have easily been a self-important slog, yet William Riead's The Letters proves a stirring and absorbing if not quite definitive drama. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Dec 1, 2015

A movie that won’t convert anyone, a film for the faithful who want to believe nothing but the best about Mother Teresa. Real life is rarely cut and dry, and dramatically flat, as this. Read full review

Noel Murray

Dec 3, 2015

The Letters feels dutiful, not artful. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Godfrey Cheshire

Dec 4, 2015

A drama in which belief is reduced to well-meaning but inert treacle. Read full review

Nick Schager

Dec 3, 2015

Opting for dutiful, reverent beatification over flesh-and-blood characterizations (or insights), the film is merely a clunky primer on how poor storytelling can make even the grandest of figures seem small. Read full review

Serena Donadoni

Dec 1, 2015

Riead's reverential portrait belies Teresa's thorny complexities and turns her into a single-minded proponent of work hard, pray hard. Read full review

Inkoo Kang

Nov 24, 2015

It’s as punishingly dull as Sunday-school homework — and just as unnecessary. Read full review

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womblingfree

Apr 16, 2018

this film is so sickly sweet and glosses over the truth.She "was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty" and "a friend to the worst of the rich". A fake and a fraud, millions of dollars disappeared, many thousands suffered at her hands so she could self publicise. She preachedthis film is so sickly sweet and glosses over the truth.She "was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty" and "a friend to the worst of the rich". A fake and a fraud, millions of dollars disappeared, many thousands suffered at her hands so she could self publicise. She preached that pain was good and women should be subservient. Encouraged backwardness and an opponent of womens rights. Why on earth was this catholic propaganda even made defeats me. The money would have been better spent on helping the homeless.… Expand

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