Sister Act (1992) on Netflix

PG19921h 40mComedy Music Musical

Lounge singer Deloris Van Cartier witnesses gangster Vince LaRocca kill an informant, so the police hide her in a San Francisco convent as Sister Mary Clarence. Convent life does not suit her.

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IMDb6.6/10119,837 votes
Rotten Tomatoes73%

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Plot summary

Deloris Van Cartier sings in a Reno club, where she is involved with the owner, gangster Vince LaRocca. After she sees him murder an informant, Vince orders his men to get rid of her, and she flees to the Reno police. Lieutenant Eddie Souther, who wants her testimony against Vince, puts her in witness protection at Saint Katherine's Parish, a convent in a struggling neighborhood of San Francisco. Disguised as Sister Mary Clarence, Deloris clashes with the Reverend Mother over the rigid routine. She befriends the upbeat Sister Mary Patrick, the elderly Sister Mary Lazarus and the shy novice Sister Mary Robert, and after the Reverend Mother orders her to join the convent's lackluster choir, her singing experience puts her in charge of it.

Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Sister Act (1992)

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Screenwriter Paul Rudnick pitched Sister Act to producer Scott Rudin in 1987 with Bette Midler in mind for the lead role, but Midler turned the role down, fearing that her fans would not want to see her play a nun.
As production commenced the script was rewritten by a half dozen screenwriters, including Carrie Fisher, Robert Harling and Nancy Meyers, and with the movie no longer resembling his original script, Rudnick asked to be credited with a pseudonym, deciding on Joseph Howard.
In June 1993, actress Donna Douglas and her business partner filed a $200 million lawsuit against The Walt Disney Company, Whoopi Goldberg and Bette Midler, claiming the film was plagiarized from the book A Nun in the Closet; in 1994 they declined a $1 million offer in an attempt to win the case.
In November 2011 a nun named Delois Blakely sued The Walt Disney Company and Sony Pictures, claiming her 1987 autobiography The Harlem Street Nun was the basis for the film after a movie executive expressed interest following her three-page synopsis; she refiled in 2012 asking for $1 billion in damages.
The Sister Act stage musical premiered at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California in October 2006 and broke records there, grossing $1,085,929 to become the highest grossing show ever at the venue.
Sister Act's success extended to the home video market, where it was the most rented film of 1993 in the United States.