Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

"The holy terror is back!"

1993 1h 47m EN

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Deloris Van Cartier is again asked to don the nun's habit to help a run-down Catholic school, presided over by Mother Superior. And if trying to reach out to a class full of uninterested students wasn't bad enough, the sisters discover that the school is due to be closed by the unscrupulous chief of a local authority.

“The holy terror is back!”

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Cast

Whoopi Goldberg
Deloris Van Cartier
Kathy Najimy
Sister Mary Patrick
Lauryn Hill
Rita Louise Watson
Sheryl Lee Ralph
Florence Watson
Maggie Smith
Mother Superior
Barnard Hughes
Father Maurice
Mary Wickes
Sister Mary Lazarus
James Coburn
Mr. Crisp

Credits

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Director: Bill Duke
Writers: James Orr, Judi Ann Mason, Jim Cruickshank
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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33 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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Part of the "Sister Act Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Bill Duke, shot by Oliver Wood. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Miles Goodman. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor John Carter shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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ERA

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Whoopi Goldberg and Kathy Najimy and Lauryn Hill carry the top of the cast.

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Marketing tagline: "The holy terror is back!".

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IMDB entry: tt0108147 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Bill Duke directs. Oliver Wood behind the camera. Miles Goodman scores. John Carter cuts. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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133 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
2Part of the "Sister Act Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
3Directed by Bill Duke, shot by Oliver Wood. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by Miles Goodman. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Editor John Carter shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Whoopi Goldberg and Kathy Najimy and Lauryn Hill carry the top of the cast.
7Marketing tagline: "The holy terror is back!".
8IMDB entry: tt0108147 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Classified under 14 themes, including "nun", "education", "music competition", "sequel".
10Released under 14 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Oliver Wood
Original score: Miles Goodman
Editing: John Carter
Production design: John DeCuir Jr.
Costume design: Francine Jamison-Tanchuck
Makeup / hair: Michael Germain
Sound: Mel Metcalfe
Stunt coordinator: Greg Wayne Elam
Runtime: 107 min · 1h 47m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $38,000,000
Box office: $57,319,029
Return: 151% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG
IMDB: Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993)

Part of

Sister Act Collection

Sister Act is a 1992 American comedy film released by Touchstone Pictures. Directed by Emile Ardolino, it features musical arrangements by Marc Shaiman and stars Whoopi Goldberg as a Reno lounge singer who has been put under protective custody in a San Francisco convent and has to pretend to be a nun when a mob boss puts her on his hit list. Also in the cast are Maggie Smith, Kathy Najimy, Wendy Makkena, Mary Wickes, and Harvey Keitel. The film was followed by a 1993 sequel, Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit.

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CinemaSerf2023-08-26
★ 6/10
The "Reverend Mother" (Dame Maggie Smith) seeks out the now hugely successful "Deloris" (Whoopi Goldberg) to help her to save a school from closure. Upon arrival, and assumption of her clerical moniker "Sister Mary Clarence" she discovers a disparate band of students who have little faith in themselves, each other - or their teachers. Can she lick them into shape and use their newly formed choir to save the school from the bulldozers? The premiss is not a patch on the first film, and neither is the execution. Dame Maggie offer a few classy cameo roles, as does an on form Mary Wickes with James Coburn appearing occasionally as the ferret-like administrator determined to help ensure the school does actually close, but for the most part this is akin to an early episode of "Fame". The kids, including an early appearance from Lauryn Hill, are almost auditioning - either to the nuns or to the audience, and even the ending is just a little like the end of "the Sound of Music" (only admittedly, somewhat livelier!). It's not terrible, but somehow it misses the faux-menace of the first in the series. It was made very quickly after that first one, so i wonder if this was more about capitalising on that success rather than making a quality sequel?

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