Sister Act (1992)

An important witness in a case against a gangster takes refuge in a convent. The contrast between her pagan way of life and that of the nuns is the basis for the humor.

Despite the inevitable (and hypocritical) "I came out of it a better person" kind of ending, it is obvious to me that, rather than being a case of nuns teaching values to an irreligious person, it is actually the other way around that prevails in this movie: it's Hollywood telling the Catholic Church how to behave in order to be "cool". Anyway, sticking to more prosaic matters, one IMDb user nicknamed winner55 pointed out an important flaw of this movie, namely, that the main character was written as a Latino woman, not a black one. And, I add, especially not the physical type embodied by its actual main actress. Anyway, the film went through seven screenwriters so as to ensure nothing remotely deviant from absolute blandness would happen in it. Of course, offending Catholics does not depart from that standard, as it's, as late writer Gore Vidal once brilliantly put it, "beating on a dead dog". But the direction is competent and, within its limits and considering its target audience, the film works.

Rating: 34