- Actors: Eric Idle, Robbie Coltrane, Camille Coduri, Janet Suzman, Doris Hare
- Directors: Jonathan Lynn
- Writers: Jonathan Lynn
- Producers: Denis O'Brien, George Harrison, Michael White, Simon Bosanquet
- Format: PAL
- Language English
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: 15
- Studio: Anchor Bay
- DVD Release Date: 8 April 2002
- Run Time: 89 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000060NZB
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 75,596 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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You'll finding yourself rooting for this movie to take off in a sustained flight of comic inspiration, but it seldom does. It's too bad that it doesn't, given the casting, because both leads (Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane) are capable of extreme funniness. Idle and Coltrane play a couple of low-level crooks who decide to get a piece of the action for themselves and abscond with the loot from a big score. But they're discovered before they can getaway and their only avenue of egress is into a convent. So they don habits and hide out by pretending to be nuns, teaching parochial school to budding young girls. Now think about the possibilities in that premise and anything you can think of is in the film (though Coltrane remains one of the funniest men alive). --Marshall Fine
Special Features
1.85 Wide Screen
16:9 Wide Screen
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround English
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
Theatrical Trailer
Filmographies Of Cast And Crew
Biographies
16:9 Wide Screen
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround English
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
Theatrical Trailer
Filmographies Of Cast And Crew
Biographies
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good Laugh, Good Disc,
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This review is from: Nuns On The Run [1990] [DVD] (DVD)
This dvd has a lot more going for it than it says on the sleeve.There is an informative Commentary by Writer/Director Jonathan Lynn, he come across as though he enjoyed making this film despite production problems. Idle and Coltrane are on top form in this latter day ealing comedy. A good laugh from a great cast, the nuns shine and the "Lets seen 'em" weapons gag is a classic and the bewildered police/gangster (We don't know) is a wonderful display of cluelessness. All in all not as good a the classic ealing of the Ladykillers or Kind Hearts and Coronets but nevertheless a good fun and sometimes overlooked British Comedy. I would recommend it to you.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
made me laugh out loud,
This review is from: Nuns On The Run [1990] [DVD] (DVD)
Eric Idle (of Monty Python fame) is excellent in the role of the lovable crook. The scenes in the nunnery are some of the most hilarious I've ever seen in a movie. I can only recommend it. Just a pity that there were no bonuses on this DVD.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
We are not nuns,
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This review is from: Nuns On The Run [1990] [DVD] (DVD)
Nuns on the Run is a story of two old fashioned gangsters, Charlie & Brian who are fed up with the increasingly violent nature of their business. They decide to retire from it after a bungled robbery in which a fellow robber is killed by accident. However after seeing their gang boss kill a mechanic who fixes up stolen cars, because he wanted to leave the firm they decide to flee, after setting up their gang boss with a robbery on a triad drug gang. Predictably the set up goes wrong and soon leaves Charlie & Brian forced to hide from both the Triads, and Casey their rather violent former boss. The only place they can find to hide, a nunnery. Charlie & Brian soon become Sisters Inviolata & Euphemia to hide them until they can escape. However Brian is in love, and won’t leave without his girlfriend Faith, who is being hunted by the Triads and Casey as a link to Brian & Charlie. Nuns on the Run has to be one of the funniest films of the early 1990s, and a masterstroke combining Robbie Coltrane & Eric Idle together for this happy caper. Many people remember Coltrane as the tough forensic psychologist “Fitz” in the TV series Cracker, or more recently as Hagrid in the Harry Potter films. However in Nuns on the Run, his characters serious efforts to be a nun show what a talented comedy performer Coltrane is, and how he made his name in TV. A great film from start to finish, and one I can watch over and over again.
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