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Lilies of the Field (1963)
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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...
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Sidney Poitier became the first African-American to win a Best Actor Oscar for his role as Homer Smith, a carpenter, who becomes entangled in the world of five German nuns in the middle of the Arizona desert. Though it is a somewhat bizarre premise, the film becomes a story about modern-day miracles, and the oppressed...
(complete Lilies of the Field review by Jessica Film Junkie)
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