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Nuns On The Run [VHS] [1990]

VHS ~ Eric Idle
4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

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  • 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: Dolby, PAL, Surround Sound
  • Language English
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Anchor Bay Home Entertainment
  • VHS Release Date: 8 April 2002
  • Run Time: 88 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004CKMO
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 12,413 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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Amazon.co.uk Review

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


Synopsis

A pair of petty crooks who steal a million pounds from their gangster employer are forced to hide out in a convent disguised as nuns. But they are not prepared for the odd characters they encounter.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Good Laugh, Good Disc, 24 Jul 2002
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.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars We are not nuns, 22 Mar 2006
By J. Hammond "Big John" (Oxford, UK) - See all my reviews
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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 film of sharp and extremely funny dialogue, a great sound track by Yello and action packed if not slightly predictable as calamities come the way of our two “nuns” as they try to blend in, and to also make their escape.

A great film from start to finish, and one I can watch over and over again.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars 'A drink madam? Or some caviar?', 16 Feb 2001
If riveting car chases, money laundering, fun-packed antics, excellent costumes, classic actors and a heart-racing ending appeals, then Nuns on the Run is a definite buy. It is packed full of laughs, and its warmth and energy make it a classic British comedy. Robbie Coltrane and Eric Idle both exceed themselves as they slip into their nun outfits, and adopt a convincing and insightful female role. The rhytmic music throughout the film heightens its enjoyment and thrill, and the clash of British gangsters and the Triads is overtly comical and intricately amusing. There is little more to be said about this masterful comedy except this: for once, the crooks get away with the money (well, half of it anyway!'.
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