Practically fresh from the Best Supporting Actress Oscar she won for Ghost, Whoopi Goldberg comes back with a pair of films as Deloris Cartier aka Sister Mary Clarence in Sister Act. Probably some of the best publicity the Catholic Church got since Bing Crosby playing a priest.
Whoopi is the lead singer in a tribute Supremes act in Reno and mistress of casino owner Harvey Keitel. When she walk in on Harvey dispatching a snitch to the hereafter it's time to flee to the law.
What to do with his witness against Keitel who is known to make people disappear is what Detective Bill Nunn has to solve. He calls in a favor and asks Mother Superior Maggie Smith in San Francisco to stash Whoopie in her big city convent under Sister Mary Clarence.
Whoopie had a Catholic school experience and didn't take to it all that well is kind of an odd fish in the convent with nuns of all types and experiences.
At this point Sister Act does become a lot like those Crosby films because in Going My Way Father O'Malley puts a little life in the church by organizing the neighborhood kids as a choir. And even more so in The Bells Of St.Mary's where the nuns are a rather nice choir.
Whoopi puts her own music ministry together with some soul and some more contemporary music than Bing was doing in his day. But she still has Keitel looking to bump her off before trial.
Some nice performances from those mentioned and from Kathy Najimy and Wendy Makkena as her sidekicks in convent mischief.
I'm sure Maggie Smith who no doubt saw the Sound Of Music was beginning to create her own lyrics to How Do You Solve A Problem Like Whoopi.
No problem for us at all, sit back and enjoy.
Whoopi is the lead singer in a tribute Supremes act in Reno and mistress of casino owner Harvey Keitel. When she walk in on Harvey dispatching a snitch to the hereafter it's time to flee to the law.
What to do with his witness against Keitel who is known to make people disappear is what Detective Bill Nunn has to solve. He calls in a favor and asks Mother Superior Maggie Smith in San Francisco to stash Whoopie in her big city convent under Sister Mary Clarence.
Whoopie had a Catholic school experience and didn't take to it all that well is kind of an odd fish in the convent with nuns of all types and experiences.
At this point Sister Act does become a lot like those Crosby films because in Going My Way Father O'Malley puts a little life in the church by organizing the neighborhood kids as a choir. And even more so in The Bells Of St.Mary's where the nuns are a rather nice choir.
Whoopi puts her own music ministry together with some soul and some more contemporary music than Bing was doing in his day. But she still has Keitel looking to bump her off before trial.
Some nice performances from those mentioned and from Kathy Najimy and Wendy Makkena as her sidekicks in convent mischief.
I'm sure Maggie Smith who no doubt saw the Sound Of Music was beginning to create her own lyrics to How Do You Solve A Problem Like Whoopi.
No problem for us at all, sit back and enjoy.