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Summary: One of the Best Comedies of the Early 1990's!
Review: "Sister Act" is one of the funniest and best made films of the early 1990's. Starring Whoopi Goldberg as Delores Van Cartier, (a lounge singer working in a Reno, Nevada casino) the film begins with a flashback showing a young and irreverent Delores in a Catholic parochial school being reprimanded by a nun after giving the names of the Beatles for the names of the apostles. The nun warns Delores that she won't amount to much if she maintains her poor attitude.Returning to the present, we see the hapless Delores and her two back-up singers performing before a mostly empty audience in a Reno casino. Unhappy with her career and her married boyfriend, Vince LaRocca (played by Harvey Keitel), Delores decides to leave, but Vince appeases her by giving her a mink coat. When Delores discovers that the coat actually belongs to his wife, she tromps over to Vince's office, where she unwittingly sees Vince shoot one of his employees. Sadly, Delores' unfortunate appearance did not go unnoticed as Vince orders his henchmen to get Delores. She bolts out of Vince's office and into the casino where she manages to escape and flees to the police. Now knowing that her exboyfriend Vince is a gangster, police lieutenant Eddie Souther (played by Bill Nunn), tells Delores that she must enter the witness protection program to be safe until she can testify against Vince. Eddie takes Delores to San Francisco so that she can assume her new identity as a nun in a convent. After Eddie leaves, the very unhappy Delores cannot hide her horror of being a nun and Mother Superior (played by Maggie Smith) is not thrilled with the situation either. You can't help but laugh while watching Mother Superior's attempts to find a suitable place for Delores (now known as Sister Mary Clarence) within the convent or Delores' disgust with "looking like a penguin," as she puts it. Meanwhile, two of the convent's nuns, Sister Mary Patrick (played by Kathy Najimy) and Sister Mary Robert (played by Wendy Makkena) become endeared with Sister Mary Clarence. Mother Superior finally decides to have Sister Mary Clarence join the convent's inharmonic choir, which has been under the tutelage of Sister Mary Lazurus, who was played by Mary Wickes. This wasn't the first time that Mary Wickes portrayed a nun: she also portrayed Sister Clarissa in the films "The Trouble with Angels" in 1966 and its sequel "Where Angels Go Trouble Follows" in 1968. Will Delores find a way to survive life in the convent and bring harmony to the choir? Will Mother Superior be able to keep her sanity in tact? Will Vince find where Delores is hiding? To answer these questions, sit back, watch this film and be prepared to laugh! The film's rendering on DVD and sound quality are both very good. The DVD includes a few extras: the film's trailor and two music videos that were released with the film.
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Summary: No Sex, No Booze, No Men, No Way
Review: Absolutely fantastic.....The complement of Whoopi Goldberg with Maggie Smith adds to the comedy laughs and sheer enjoyment of this film. Great Fun for everyone!
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Summary: Funny, Entertaining, Cool
Review: Defidently a fun-filled movie. Delores hides out in a church from her husband who is a member of the Mafia and wants to kill her. She ends up directin the awful sounding chior. She makes that horrible chior turn into one of the best chiors I've ever heared!
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Summary: You Can't Ban Me is wrong
Review: Deloris Van Cartier (Whoopi Goldburg) is a Reno lounge singer whose life is going nowhere fast. She just saw her married lover, Vince LaRocca (Harvey Keitel), a mob boss, kill a man and is in fear for her life. Deloris didn't want to cooperate with the police, but she wanted to live. However, after finding out where the police were planning on stashing her, Deloris wished that she was dead. How on earth was she supposed to pass herself off as a nun in a convent? Still, Deloris was determined to give it her best shot and became Sister Mary Clarence. Deloris/Sister Mary Clarence hadn't been in the convent for a day before she was already causing problems and being called before Mother Superior (Maggie Smith). Mother Superior didn't know what to do with Sister Mary Clarence, but the perfect solution presented itself when she saw how Sister Mary Clarence reacted to the atrocious choir performance on Sunday. She promptly informed Sister Mary Clarence that she would be in charge of the choir and felt that that would keep her out of mischief. However, before too long, Sister Mary Clarence had the whole choir rocking and rolling as she took traditional religious songs and rocked them up and rock songs and made them religious. Unfortunately, Mary Clarence's many good works could not go unnoticed for long and she soon found the mob hot on her trail... Sister Act is a funny, entertaining movie that just makes you laugh. The role of Deloris/Sister Mary Clarence was tailor made for Whoopi Goldberg and you can just tell that she is having a wonderful time. The supporting cast, led by Maggie Smith (Mother Superior), Kathy Najimy (Sister Mary Patrick), Wendy Makkena (Sister Mary Robert) and Mary Wickes (Sister Mary Lazarus) was also superb and each actress brought her own unique charm into her role. If you are looking for a fast, fun, hilarious movie that you can watch with the whole family - and sing along with, too! - this is a great choice!
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Summary: A Wonderful, Feel-Good Movie with Plenty of Laughs
Review: Deloris Van Cartier (Whoopi Goldburg) is a Reno lounge singer whose life is going nowhere fast. She just saw her married lover, Vince LaRocca (Harvey Keitel), a mob boss, kill a man and is in fear for her life. Deloris didn't want to cooperate with the police, but she wanted to live. However, after finding out where the police were planning on stashing her, Deloris wished that she was dead. How on earth was she supposed to pass herself off as a nun in a convent? Still, Deloris was determined to give it her best shot and became Sister Mary Clarence. Deloris/Sister Mary Clarence hadn't been in the convent for a day before she was already causing problems and being called before Mother Superior (Maggie Smith). Mother Superior didn't know what to do with Sister Mary Clarence, but the perfect solution presented itself when she saw how Sister Mary Clarence reacted to the atrocious choir performance on Sunday. She promptly informed Sister Mary Clarence that she would be in charge of the choir and felt that that would keep her out of mischief. However, before too long, Sister Mary Clarence had the whole choir rocking and rolling as she took traditional religious songs and rocked them up and rock songs and made them religious. Unfortunately, Mary Clarence's many good works could not go unnoticed for long and she soon found the mob hot on her trail... Sister Act is a funny, entertaining movie that just makes you laugh. The role of Deloris/Sister Mary Clarence was tailor made for Whoopi Goldberg and you can just tell that she is having a wonderful time. The supporting cast, led by Maggie Smith (Mother Superior), Kathy Najimy (Sister Mary Patrick), Wendy Makkena (Sister Mary Robert) and Mary Wickes (Sister Mary Lazarus) was also superb and each actress brought her own unique charm into her role. If you are looking for a fast, fun, hilarious movie that you can watch with the whole family - and sing along with, too! - this is a great choice!
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Summary: Great movie, good DVD, but not 16x9 anamorphic
Review: Everyone else is commenting on the film so I'll limit my review of this (great) movie to the DVD transfer quality. Sound: 4 out of 5 stars The 5.1 soundtrack is pleasing, but lacking in surround activity and fullness. The PCM stereo on my old laserdisc sounded more enveloping, but thankfully this soundtrack on the DVD has corrected some problems with the old LD release where there was some distortion on the tape during a few points of overload. You'll have to turn this DVD up louder than most...the recording level is lower than average. Picture: 4 out of 5 stars The 4x3 lbxed 1.85:1 transfer is excellent, but it's a shame that Disney (released through touchstone) didn't bother to give us a new 16x9 anamorphic transfer as had been rumored prior to release. Over all not a bad picture (much better than the laserdisc, although both seem sourced from the same transfer), actually quite on-par with may 16x9 anamorphic transfers I've seen on my calibrated 16x9 display. But still a missed opportunity for those viewers able to view the additional 33% resolution that 16x9 encoding provides. The extras are fun, although I would have loved the C&C music factory video of "just a touch of love" rather than the 2 music videos included on on the disc. For those of you who love this movie as much as I do get the DVD. But don't let Disney off easy if you happen to be having lunch with the head of their DVD production division...let him/her know that it's a shame they didn't give the consumer a nice new 16x9 transfer! -dave
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Summary: Finally
Review: Finally! The blasphemous sequel has been doing it's rounds on the DVD format for too long now, without even a reference to this great original. All I can say is: It's Whoopi! If you don't know what that means, don't bother with this film, if you do, get it, and get it quick. Better still, there's a 2-disc set on the way with the sequel, and although that is not a good film by any means, it is still a good thing to add to your collection. Buy it when it eventually comes out!
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Summary: GOOD!
Review: GWTW they aren't but there is some fabulous music in both. I don't think that they were meant to be serious. I think I actually liked the 2 better.SA2 made me cry when they won. These are just great movies and a way to lift your spirits
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Summary: Whoopi Goldberg at her funniest!
Review: I am a big Whoopi Goldberg fan, and I especially loved this movie because the language in it was not as bad as some of the others. That goes to show you that you can actually act in a movie without using the "f" word. The entire cast was superb, but I was a little disappointed to find out that Sister Mary Robert did not do her own singing (sorry, I've forgotten Wendy's real last name). I saw it about 20 times before the credits showed me that Andrea Robinson actually did the solos for Sister Mary Robert. Sister Mary Patrick was so funny. Kathy Najimy is a great actress and kinda sorta reminds me of me. She loves great music, and talks a lot. Maggie Smith was great as the Reverend Mother, and changed her tune from cautious to open admiration of Sister Mary Clarence before the end of the show. I always did like a happy ending. What Mary Clarence did for those poor singing nuns is beyond belief. She took a group of women who could probably sing alone okay, but were terrible singing in a group, and turned them into a choir that every church in the world wishes they had. I would highly recommend Sister Act to all viewers.
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Summary: A part absolutely made for Whoopi Goldberg
Review: I didn't expect to like this movie when my husband brought it home one Friday night - but I was wrong, wrong, wrong. It's hilarious, uplifting, and entertainint.
Goldberg plays a Reno casino singer who gets in trouble with the mob and hides out disguised as a nun in a teaching convent. Maggie Smith, every twitch and blink in place, plays the mother superior who must cope with Goldberg's high jinks as she energises the convent, its choir, its students, and her own life. And, omigod! The music! You'll want the soundtrack when you've finished watching the movie.
A feel good movie to die for.
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