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Sister
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DVD Features:
- Rated: PG
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 40 minutes
- Video: Color
- Released: November 6, 2001
- Originally Released: 1992
- Label: Touchstone / Disney
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Packaging: Keep Case
- Aspect Ratio: Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
- Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
- Additional Release Material:
- Featurette: "Inside SISTER ACT"
- Trailers: Original Theatrical Trailer
- Interactive Features:
- Scene Access
- Interactive Menus
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Whoopi Goldberg | |
| Performer: | Maggie Smith, Kathy Najimy, Wendy Makkena, Mary Wickes, Harvey Keitel, Bill Nunn, Robert Miranda & Richard Portnow | |
| Directed by | Emile Ardolino | |
| Edited by | Colleen Halsey & Richard Halsey | |
| Screenwriting by | Joseph Howard | |
| Composition by | Marc Shaiman | |
| Produced by | Teri Schwartz | |
| Director of Photography: | Adam Greenberg | |
| Executive Production by | Scott Rudin |
Memorable Quotes and Dialog:
"If this turns into a nun's bar. I'm out of here."
- said by a tough-looking biker.
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 6/10 --
Light and fluffy as it is, "Sister Act" still has plenty of laugh-out-loud moments and some warm fuzzies as well as some believable action, and that makes it a 7 out of 10 in my book. But the sequel? It's more like a 5.
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Movie Metropolis
...The choral scenes [are] skillfully done...
USA Today
It's Whoopi and the girls who keep this confection tasty.
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Newsweek
Rating: 2/5 --
Pretty stupid.
San Francisco Examiner
The film trundles along, full of holy-poky, mayhem and one-liners.
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The Spectator
Rating: C+ --
A silly, harmless star vehicle for Whoopi Goldberg--sort of nuns on the run.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: 2.5/4 --
The trailer has high energy and whammo punchlines. The movie is sort of low-key and contemplative and a little too thoughtful.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Product Description:
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.
Description by Buena Vista Home Entertainment.:
Sister Act
Relive all the fun, laughter, and irresistible music of SISTER ACT -- the inspired comedy hit that packed pews everywhere! Whoopi Goldberg stars as a sassy, low-rent lounge singer forced to hide out from the mob in the last place on earth anyone would look for her -- a convent. While she's there, her irreverent behavior attracts a flock of faithful followers and turns the nuns' tone-deaf choir into a soulful chorus of swingin', singin' sisters. But when the group earns rave reviews, her sudden celebrity jeopardizes her hidden identity. Harvey Keitel and Kathy Najimy join a heavenly cast in this habit-forming comedy bursting with '60s Motown hits.
Plot 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.
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.
Keywords:
Gospel
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Organized Crime
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Switching Roles
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On-The-Run
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Murder
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Cops
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Recommended
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Clergy
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Theatrical Release
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Crime
Production Notes:
- Color by Eastmancolor; shot with Arriflex cameras and lenses on locations that included Los Angeles and San Francisco, California and Reno, Nevada.
- Estimated budget $20 million.
- Emile Ardolino was formerly a director on the PBS series, "Dance in America.. His breakthrough success was the sleeper hit "Dirty Dancing" (1987), which was Ardolino's feature film directorial debut.
- The lead role in "Sister Act" was originally tailored for actress Bette Midler.
- Reportedly, Whoopi Goldberg refused to promote the film; her reasons were unspecified.
- Allegedly, six other writers worked on the screenplay, but their contributions went uncredited: Eleanor Bergstein, Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr., Carrie Fisher, Robert Harling, and Nancy Meyers.
- Andrea Robinson was the singing voice of Sister Mary Robert.
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