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On-the-run after witnessing her Las Vegas mobster boyfriend kill someone, a tacky lounge singer (Whoopi Goldberg) enters the Witness Protection Program - as a nun. Now the convent needs protection, from the new Sister Mary Clarence and her Vegas-style ideas on how to run the choir. A charming comedy and one of Goldberg's best .. Read more

Starring Whoopi Goldberg, Harvey Keitel, Mary Wickes, Maggie Smith
Director Emile Ardolino
Genres Comedy, Drama

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Sister Act

On-the-run after witnessing her Las Vegas mobster boyfriend kill someone, a tacky lounge singer (Whoopi Goldberg) enters the Witness Protection Program - as a nun. Now the convent needs protection, from the new Sister Mary Clarence and her Vegas-style ideas on how to run the choir. A charming comedy and one of Goldberg's best movies.

Starring Whoopi Goldberg, Harvey Keitel, Mary Wickes, Maggie Smith, Bill Nunn, Kathy Najimy, Wendy Makkena
Director Emile Ardolino
Studio WALT DISNEY STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 36 mins
Certificate DVD Certificate PG.gif
Genres Comedy, Drama
Language English
Released DVD: 15 Jun 2006
Production year: 1992
Format DVD
  • Critics' reviews (6) of Sister Act

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  • 4 stars out of 5

    Ghost may have won Whoopi Goldberg an Oscar, but it was this comedy (directed by Emile Ardolino of Dirty Dancing fame) that turned her into a huge Hollywood star. Goldberg plays the Reno lounge singer who accepts a police offer of protection that entails hiding out in a convent after she witnesses lover Harvey Keitel killing a man. That's about it for plot in this comedy from the Disney stable, and the remainder of the movie follows our heroine as she tries to bring the nuns and Maggie Smith's strict Mother Superior into the 20th century. Relying on some great songs and a superb cast (including Kathy Najimy as sunny Sister Mary Patrick), this successfully gets past the slight story to become a hugely enjoyable movie.

    • Radio Times
  • "...Graced with a clever script, a cast that will make you smile until you ache, and a snappy sense of pace....[It is] one of those rare occasions where everything almost magically falls into place..."

    • Los Angeles Times
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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    what can i say .... she is just a brilliant comedian , she walks funny , she giggle and laughs funny .. if you have a warped sense of humour .. dont rent .. but if you love life to the max .. then rent and enjoy..

    highlights of the movie .. is the nuns outfit, the way she walks into the bar scene... and the swinging arguments with the head .. she certainly does it all very old film now but watchable forever

      • A customer from NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars

    MANY laugh out loud moments and a very funny film. Whoopi is fab as usual and some great gospel moments to send the soul soaring.

      • A customer from CARLTON
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    Knowles to become a nun for Sister Act

    • 06 Jul 2009

    R&B superstar Beyonce Knowles is reportedly in talks to turn the Sister Act stage musical into a movie. The Obsessed actress caught a performance of the hit theatre show - based on the Whoopi Goldberg film of the same name - during her recent trip to London, and she was so taken by the performance, she's allegedly looking to remake it as a movie. A source tells the Daily Mail newspaper, "Beyonce has asked her representatives to persuade Disney to develop the show into a film vehicle for her. "I Read more

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    • On-the-run after witnessing her Las Vegas mobster boyfriend kill someone, a tacky lounge singer (Whoopi Goldberg) enters the Witness Protection Program - as a nun. Now the convent needs protection, ...