Katherine's is poorly attended, due in part to the lackluster performance of the convent choir led by Mary Lazarus. Both Deloris and the convent's head nun, the ' Reverend Mother', object to this, but are convinced otherwise to do so, the latter by Monsignor O'Hara, the local parish priest, due to the police offering a healthy donation to the convent for their aid.ĭisguised as 'Sister Mary Clarence', Deloris initially has difficulty dealing with the rigid and simple convent life, but befriends some of the nuns - Sister Mary Patrick, the elderly Sister Mary Lazarus and the Novice Sister Mary Robert - in the process. She is brought to Saint Katherine's Convent, a part of Saint Katherine's Parish, located in a run-down neighborhood in San Francisco.

After she witnesses her gangster boyfriend Vince LaRocca execute an informant, police lieutenant Eddie Souther places her in witness protection. Twenty-four years later, in 1992, Deloris works as a lounge singer in Reno, Nevada, performing under the stage name of Deloris Van Cartier.

In 1968, Deloris Wilson is a young Catholic school student, who is less than serious about her studies, greatly embarrassing her nun teachers. Hicks and Karin Gist were hired to write the script to Sister Act 3 to be released on Disney+. On December 7, 2018, it was confirmed that Regina Y. The film spawned a franchise, which consists of the 1993 sequel Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit and a musical adaptation, which premiered in 2006. Sister Act was one of the more financially successful comedies of the early 1990s, grossing $231 million worldwide. The cast included Maggie Smith, Kathy Najimy, Wendy Makkena, Mary Wickes, and Harvey Keitel. The film stars Whoopi Goldberg as a lounge singer forced to join a convent after being placed in a witness protection program, who in turn helps them to rejuvenate the surrounding neighbourhood by transforming their troubled choir.

Sister Act is a 1992 American comedy film, directed by Emile Ardolino and written by Paul Rudnick (as Joseph Howard), with musical arrangements by Marc Shaiman.

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