Sister Act
After the success of last year’s The Sound of Music sing-a-long, join us and the Order of Perpetual Indulgence for another nun-filled musical caper – costumes and singing highly encouraged!
When a nightclub singer (Whoopi Goldberg) witnesses a mob murder, she’s forced into witness protection in a San Francisco convent. Despite Mother Superior’s (Maggie Smith) reservations, she turns the flagging convent choir into a soulful chorus complete with a Motown repertoire – until the choir’s sudden celebrity jeopardises her identity. Originally written as a vehicle for Bette Midler by gay writer Paul Rudnick (Jeffrey, In & Out), and directed by openly gay Emile Ardolino (Dirty Dancing), the only thing that could make this film gayer is if Sister Mary Roberts actually admitted her repressed feelings for Goldberg’s Deloris.
“Sister Act is outrageous fun and delicious deviltry. The laughs keep coming but, best of all, there’s much humanity at work. It’s a movie that just, pardon me, makes you feel darn good.”
— Associated Press
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About Sister Act
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Director
Emile Ardolino -
Writer
Joseph Howard -
Cast
Whoopi Goldberg Maggie Smith Harvey Keitel Kathy Najimy Wendy Makkena Mary Wickes -
Producer
Teri Schwartz -
Company Credits
Courtesy of: The Walt Disney Company -
Program Strand
For the Love of Music Narrative Feature Retrospective Special Event
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