Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
When lively lounge singer Deloris sees her mobster beau commit murder, she is relocated for her protection. Set up in the guise of a nun in a California convent, she proceeds to upend the quiet lives of the resident sisters.
- concert
- nun
- church choir
- dark comedy
- witness protection
- gospel
- singer
- murder
- singing nun
- fish out of water
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Whoopi Goldberg
Deloris Van Cartier / Sister Mary Clarence
Maggie Smith
Mother Superior
Kathy Najimy
Sister Mary Patrick
Wendy Makkena
Sister Mary Robert
- Mary Wickes — Sister Mary Lazarus
- Harvey Keitel — Vince LaRocca
- Bill Nunn — Lt. Eddie Souther
- Robert Miranda — Joey
- Richard Portnow — Willy
- Ellen Albertini Dow — Choir Nun
- Carmen Zapata — Choir Nun
- Pat Crawford Brown — Choir Nun
- Prudence Wright Holmes — Choir Nun
- Ruth Kobart — Choir Nun
- Susan Browning — Choir Nun
- Directed
- Emile Ardolino
- Written
- Paul Rudnick
Production
- Rating
- 6.8 / 10 · 3,519 ratings
- Studio
- Touchstone Pictures, Touchwood Pacific Partners 1
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1992 · You’re hereSister Act
Where it starts.
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
1993
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
