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efilmcritic.com - : Whoopi Goldberg plays a midlevel Vegas lounge singer named Deloris Van Cartier who manages to witness her Mafioso boyfriend Vince LaRocca’s (Harvey Keitel) murder. Turning state’s witness (Because the rules of light comedy preclude Deloris from having any complicity in Murder.) it now becomes necessary to find someplace to hide her. As it turns out the nuns need her as much as she needs a place to hole up. Deloris is given a new name (nom de’ nun?) and proceeds to cause trouble that is until she finds herself in charge of the choir. Having found her niche the rest of the movie rolls along in all of the ways that you expect. more...
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www.washingtonpost.com - : Very quickly -- the best way to get through this movie -- she's a singer of tacky Supremes-type medleys at a Vegas club. She's also the mistress of murderous mobster and club owner Harvey Keitel. One formulaic day, Goldberg bursts unannounced into Keitel's office just in time to see her boyfriend execute a disloyal goon. more...
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