Whoopi Goldberg stars in Emile Ardolino's comedy thriller as Deloris Van Cartier, a lounge singer at a casino managed by her lover Vince LaRocca. He's also a drugs baron, and when she accidentally interrupts him in the process of disposing of a stool pigeon, she has to run for her life.
To keep her safe until LaRocca can be charged, the police arrange for her to become Sister Mary Clarence at a nunnery overseen by stern a Mother Superior. But you can't keep a good singer down and Sister Mary has soon so successfully invigorated the choir with her musical talent that the church is packed, and there is even a call from Rome for a Papal performance. Unfortunately, thanks to an inside man in the police department, LaRocca learns of her whereabouts and sets out to prevent her testifying; can her new found friends, the nuns, protect her?
Sister Act is a Film programme that first aired in 1992 and has been classified a PG certificate.
