- Film Review
- Reviewed By Joanna Berry
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4 out of 5
Ghost may have won Whoopi Goldberg an Oscar, but it was this comedy (directed by Emile Ardolino of Dirty Dancing fame) that turned her into a huge Hollywood star. Goldberg plays the Reno lounge singer who accepts a police offer of protection that entails hiding out in a convent after she witnesses lover Harvey Keitel killing a man. That's about it for plot in this comedy from the Disney stable, and the remainder of the movie follows our heroine as she tries to bring the nuns and Maggie Smith's strict Mother Superior into the 20th century. Relying on some great songs and a superb cast (including Kathy Najimy as sunny Sister Mary Patrick), this successfully gets past the slight story to become a hugely enjoyable movie.
Plot Summary
Comedy starring Whoopi Goldberg. After seeing her gangster boyfriend Vince LaRocca murder an informant, cabaret singer Deloris Van Cartier becomes a marked woman. When she agrees to testify against Vince, Deloris is sent by the police to hide in a San Francisco convent where she has trouble adapting to the nuns' way of life.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Deloris Van Cartier
- Whoopi Goldberg
- Mother Superior
- Maggie Smith
- Sister Mary Patrick
- Kathy Najimy
- Sister Mary Robert
- Wendy Makkena
- Sister Mary Lazarus
- Mary Wickes
- Vince LaRocca
- Harvey Keitel
- Eddie Souther
- Bill Nunn
- Joey
- Robert Miranda
- Willy
- Richard Portnow
- Sister Alma
- Rose Parenti
- Bishop O'Hara
- Joseph Maher
- Clarkson
- Jim Beaver
Crew
- Director
- Emile Ardolino
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