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Sister Act

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Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

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Sister Act 3

Original title

Sister Act

Year

1992

Running time

100 min.

Country

United States

Director

Emile Ardolino

Screenwriter

Paul Rudnick

Cast

Music

Marc Shaiman

Cinematography

Adam Greenberg

Producer

Touchstone Pictures, Touchwood Pacific Partners I. Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures

Genre

Comedy | Religion. Nuns. Music. Education

Synopsis

A lounge singer, specializing in the enthusiastic performance of Motown classics, has to hightail it out of Reno when she witnesses her gangster boyfriend icing an unfortunate stool pigeon. The cops want her testimony so that they can put her ex-lover behind bars, but they know he'll be trying to silence her permanently. The Witness Relocation Program eventually hides her in the last place they think anyone would look: a convent. With nothing to do but lay low and kill time, the feisty, incognito nun starts to go a little stir-crazy -- that is, until the Mother Superior puts her in charge of the convent's choir. It's a hopeless group musically, but the former lounge lizard realizes she's found her calling and quickly whips her recruits into top R&B form. Meanwhile, her ex has found out where she's hiding and plans a visit with a few of his more "influential" friends.

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Awards: 1992: 2 nominations for Golden Globe: Comedy/Musical, Actress (Goldberg)

1993: NAACP Image Awards: 2 awards.

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Critics' reviews

"Whoever edited the trailer has a much better idea of what's good in this material than the man who directed the movie (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"Graced with a clever script, a cast that will make you smile until you ache, and a snappy sense of pace, this summer '92 hit is the funniest by-the-numbers comedy in who knows how long."

Kenneth Turan: Los Angeles Times
Though the film has its moments and Goldberg is a riot, Sister Act is far from inspired."

Hal Hinson: The Washington Post
"'Sister Act' was screened on Wednesday night for an audience of 300 nuns who found a lot of it funny, especially a closing gag about the Pope. Secular audiences aren't likely to be so charitable."

Janet Maslin: The New York Times
"It may be clumsily made, shamelessly contrived and utterly cynical in its calculated uplift, but there's no getting around it: the damn thing is funny."

David Ansen: Newsweek
"It’s a divine concept, and after a weak start director Emile Ardolino milks it for all the laughs it’s worth, while deriving requisite warmth from solid performances by Goldberg and Smith."

Variety Staff: Variety
"The movie is a Disneyfied contradiction: a lapsed-Catholic comedy without a whiff of true blasphemy. Still, on its own fluffy terms, it’s pleasant nunsense."

Owen Gleiberman: Entertainment Weekly
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