Directed by:
Emile ArdolinoScreenplay:
Paul RudnickCinematography:
Adam GreenbergComposer:
Marc ShaimanCast:
Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Smith, Kathy Najimy, Wendy Makkena, Harvey Keitel, Bill Nunn, Robert Miranda, Richard Portnow, Ellen Albertini Dow, Carmen Zapata (more)Plots(1)
Deloris Van Cartier (Whoopi Goldberg) is a lounge singer with aspirations to be a star, but instead becomes the star witness to a mob murder. She goes to the police, is put into the state witness protection scheme and sent to a nunnery run by a starchy Mother Superior (Maggie Smith). Whilst there Deloris tries to fit in, but finds that everything she does seems to annoy her fellow nuns - until she discovers the choir. (Disney / Buena Vista)
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Whoopi Goldberg is really great here, and thanks to her and a few other actresses, the first half of the film is not as boring as the screenwriter wrote it. The second half, however, once the singing starts, makes an average comedy above average. The songs have zest and Maggie Smith's stony expression is priceless.
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