Lilies of the Field

Sidney Poitier as the life-loving ex-GI who one day encounters five nuns escaped from beyond the Berlin Wall...
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  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 35 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: October 27, 2015
  • Originally Released: 1963
  • Label: KL Studios Classics

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Academy Awards 1963 - Best Actor: Sidney Poitier
Academy Awards 2001 - Honorary Awards: Sidney Poitier

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User Ratings: 6,121
Rating: B -- Ralph Nelson's melodrama is best known for featuring the Oscar-winning performance of Sidney Poitier, the first black actor to win the male lead award. Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
Mar 13, 2011
Rating: 4/5 -- James Poe's simplistic screenplay might have become sluggishly sentimental without Ralph Nelson's discerning direction and Poitier's sharp humour. Full Review
Radio Times
Jan 8, 2018
Rating: 9/10 -- One of the most gentle and affecting stories about faith and generosity ever committed to film. Full Review
The Retro Set
Dec 28, 2018
Rating: 3.5/4 -- A beautifully understated work, built on the dignity of Poitier's warm gravitas, and told with a gentle and disarmingly moving confidence. Full Review
From the Front Row
Jun 4, 2019
Many factors combine in the overall success of the film, notably the restrained direction by Ralph Nelson, a thoroughly competent screenplay by James Poe, and, of course, Poitier's own standout performance. Full Review
Variety
Mar 26, 2009
Rating: 3.5/4 -- There's not much dramatic urgency to the story, but that's perfectly fine: This is the sort of picture that gives wholesomeness a good name, and its life lessons are imparted in a leisurely and unforced manner. Full Review
Creative Loafing
Apr 9, 2016
It might be significant as an early independent movie made good, but Poitier got better when he got angrier for In the Heat of the Night four years later. Full Review
Time Out
Feb 9, 2006

Product Description:

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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