Video: Throwback Movie – Sister Act

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 It is Thursday! and Thursdays are for throwbacks. 

Recently, I got an opportunity to see this movie again.

Interestingly, I decided to remind you the story...

Sister Act is a 1992 American musical comedy and one of the most financially successful comedies of the early 1990s.

Directed by Emile Ardolino and written by Joseph Howard, the film stars Whoopi Goldberg as a Reno lounge singer who has been put under protective custody in a San Francisco convent of Poor Clares and has to pretend to be a nun when a mob boss puts her on his hit list.

Summary
Sister Act is basically about a Reno lounge singer named Deloris Van Cartier who witnesses her mobster boyfriend killing an employee.

The film opens at St. Anne’s Academy, a California Catholic school where Deloris is scolded for wisecracking and disobeying rules.

The setting then changes to the present day, where Deloris Van Cartier is a lounge singer working in a casino called The Moonlight Lounge, located in Reno, Nevada run by her boyfriend, Vince LaRocca, a mobster.

After Deloris witnesses Vince executing a chauffeur, Vince orders his men Joey and Willy to kill her too.

Deloris flees Vince’s casino to the local police station where Lieutenant Eddie Souther suggests she testify against Vince if he can be arrested and tried, but for now, she should go into witness protection until the time comes.

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Deloris is afterwards taken to St. Katherine’s Roman Catholic Church in a seedy rundown neighborhood of San Francisco, where Souther suggests she disguise herself as a nun.

Both Deloris and the Reverend Mother object, but are convinced by Souther and Monsignor O’Hara to go ahead with it. Deloris becomes a nun and is given the name “Sister Mary Clarence”.

Mary Clarence objects to following the simple lives of the nunnery, but comes to befriend several of the nuns, including the forever jolly Sister Mary Patrick, quiet and meek Sister Mary Robert, and the elderly deadpan Sister Mary Lazarus.

After sneaking into a nearby bar, Mary Clarence is punished by Reverend Mother and put into the choir, which she has seen to be dreadful.

The choir nuns, having heard “Sister Mary Clarence” has a background in music, elect her to take over as choir director, which she accepts, and she rearranges them to make them better singers.

At the Sunday Mass, the choir sings perfectly before going into a gospel and rock and roll-infused performance of “Hail Holy Queen”…

That is enough, you probably need to see the movie again!!!








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