- Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Smith, Kathy Najimy, Wendy Makkena, Mary Wickes
- Directors: Emile Ardolino
- Writers: Joseph Howard
- Producers: Cindy Gilmore, Mario Iscovich, Scott Rudin, Teri Schwartz
- Language English
- Classification: PG
- Studio: Buena Vista
- VHS Release Date: 19 Jan 1998
- Run Time: 100 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00004CN5E
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,435 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
In Sister Act Whoopi Goldberg plays a Reno lounge singer who hides out as a nun when her villainous boyfriend (Harvey Keitel) goes gunning for her. Maggie Smith is the mother superior who has to cope with Whoopi's unorthodox behaviour, but the cute script turns the tables and shows the latter energising the stodgy convent with song and attitude. A real crowd-pleaser and a perfect vehicle for Goldberg, this is a happy experience all around. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
LOVE Sister Act, a brilliant movie. Clever and funny and so good at chearing you up when you are down! You cannot watch this movie and not smile! Brilliant!
Vegas singer Delores (Whoopi Goldberg) walks in on her boyfriend shooting a man and subsequently must be placed in the witness protection programme. She is put in the last place anybody would ever look for her...a nunery! At first she hates it but eventually makles friends with some of the eccentric nuns and leads them in singing (with her jazzed up hymns).
A great movie, light-hearted and makes you feel good and as always Whoopi is great and funny! One of my favourite movies. Very highly reccomended.
Vegas singer Delores (Whoopi Goldberg) walks in on her boyfriend shooting a man and subsequently must be placed in the witness protection programme. She is put in the last place anybody would ever look for her...a nunery! At first she hates it but eventually makles friends with some of the eccentric nuns and leads them in singing (with her jazzed up hymns).
A great movie, light-hearted and makes you feel good and as always Whoopi is great and funny! One of my favourite movies. Very highly reccomended.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is a warning that this movie is not correctly encoded as 1.85:1 when playing back on a widescreen TV - you may experience both letterbox AND pillarbox bars on the screen resulting in the movie playing in a small window in the centre of your TV.
It appears that the initial Language Selection and Play/Scene Selection screens are in 4:3 format so display on a widescreen TV with vertical pillar boxes on the sides. When the movie then plays, it is displayed INSIDE this 4:3 area. Since it has been recorded in 1.85:1 it then gets horizontal letterboxes added to the top and bottom resulting in a small copy of the movie playing in the centre of your screen.
The only solution to this on my TV was to adjust the playback options from Auto to Force Original which stretched the initial 4:3 Language Selection and Playback screens to be full width (with the expected distortion.). When the movie played, it was now full width but still only had the original height so was grotesquely stretched.
TV : Philips LCD TV 32PFL7404H 32" widescreen
Player : Sony BDP-S760 Bluray
It appears that the initial Language Selection and Play/Scene Selection screens are in 4:3 format so display on a widescreen TV with vertical pillar boxes on the sides. When the movie then plays, it is displayed INSIDE this 4:3 area. Since it has been recorded in 1.85:1 it then gets horizontal letterboxes added to the top and bottom resulting in a small copy of the movie playing in the centre of your screen.
The only solution to this on my TV was to adjust the playback options from Auto to Force Original which stretched the initial 4:3 Language Selection and Playback screens to be full width (with the expected distortion.). When the movie played, it was now full width but still only had the original height so was grotesquely stretched.
TV : Philips LCD TV 32PFL7404H 32" widescreen
Player : Sony BDP-S760 Bluray
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is my favourite film, and has been for years. I've seen it at least 200 times and can repeat all the lines and the songs throughout the film. I know, really sad! I can't help it though. It's such a feel good funny film with a great soundtrack. If you haven't seen it, you're missing out!
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SISTER ACT
I really like this film. Whoopi Goldberg is brilliant as ever and its a better story than you think its gonna be. Quite an old film now but a good classic.
Published 15 months ago by Piglet62
Sister Act, Whoopi at her best
Sister Act was by far the better story than the sequel. A feelgood factor film with the highest credit going to Whoopi Goldberg who was sensational throughout. Read more
Published on 15 May 2009 by Mr. J. W. Rissbrook
Still hasn't lost it's charm after all these years
I must have first seen this film when I was 4 or 5, and remember loving it at the time. 14 years later I can happily say that 'Sister Act' still hasn't lost it's charm. Read more
Published on 17 Aug 2008 by Marlyly
Nun of that, now...
In watching Sister Act again recently, there was a particular scene that reminded me of the power of the clericals -- the thugs in the final chase refused to shoot Delores because... Read more
Published on 25 Jan 2006 by Kurt Messick
Brilliant is the word I sang at the end of the movie
Whoopie Goldberg is the only actress to actually make me seriously laugh and she does an amazing job in Sister Act. Read more
Published on 5 Jan 2006 by chaos_preacher
Excellent
A very good film, not as girly as it looks.
It's more of a comedy come drama rather than a girly film. Read more
It's more of a comedy come drama rather than a girly film. Read more
Published on 27 Oct 2004 by "eb-player"
one of the best films yet
this film is on of the most gripping yet funny things to be shown on tvtoday.
The way she walks in to the convent and is instantly liked isnot very realistic but is the film. Read more
The way she walks in to the convent and is instantly liked isnot very realistic but is the film. Read more
Published on 21 April 2004
Family Fun
Sister Act is one of those films that can never grow old and is great all round family fun!! It makes Christmas much more easy, when the kids, adults and even the grandparents can... Read more
Published on 7 May 2003
classic
Sister Act has to be one of those classic films that has to some out every year at Christmas when you've got the family round. Read more
Published on 24 April 2003
The best bad movie ever made
This movie really is not very good. It's sentimental, the unlikely plot is horribly contrived and full of holes, the characters are underdeveloped and one-dimensional and the... Read more
Published on 26 Aug 2002 by A. Bannister
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