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1993 film by Bill Duke

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit is a 1993 American musicalcomedy film, directed by Bill Duke, and released by Touchstone Pictures. A sequel to the 1992 film Sister Act, it is loosely based on the life of Crenshaw High School choir instructor Iris Stevenson. The film follows Whoopi Goldberg reprising her role as Deloris Van Cartier, who returns to assist her nun friends in saving their struggling school. Maggie Smith, Kathy Najimy, Wendy Makkena, and Mary Wickes reprise their roles from the original film.

While Sister Act 2 was a modest box office success, it initially received mixed reviews from critics. However, the film gained a devoted following over time, particularly for its energetic musical performances and uplifting themes. It starred Lauryn Hill in her breakout role, alongside Sheryl Lee Ralph, Alanna Ubach, and Jennifer Love Hewitt. Notable members of the film's choir include R&B singer Ryan Toby of City High and The War and Treaty singer Tanya Trotter. Gospel singer Erica Campbell of Mary Mary also appeared in the film as a member of the opposing choir.

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Deloris Van Cartier, now a headliner of her own show in Las Vegas based on her experience hiding from the mob in a convent, is visited by Sisters Mary Robert, Mary Patrick, and Mary Lazarus. They explain that they’ve been working in the same high school Deloris attended, St. Francis High School in San Francisco, and convince her to return with them. Upon arrival, the Reverend Mother asks for her help turning the school around. She asks Deloris to resume her identity as Sister Mary Clarence and become the school’s music teacher. She reluctantly agrees.

The sisters introduce Deloris to the other school staff, including the humble school principal, Father Maurice and school administrator Mr. Crisp, who is eager to close the school so he can be rewarded with ea

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1992 film by Emile Ardolino

This article is about the film. For other uses, see Sister Act (disambiguation).

Sister Act is a 1992 American musicalcrime comedy film directed by Emile Ardolino and written by Paul Rudnick (billed as Joseph Howard). It stars Whoopi Goldberg as a lounge singer forced to join a convent after being placed in a witness protection program. It also features Maggie Smith, Kathy Najimy, Wendy Makkena, Mary Wickes, and Harvey Keitel.

Sister Act was one of the most financially successful comedies of the early 1990s, grossing $231 million worldwide against a $31 million budget. Its success extended to the home video market, and it was the most rented film of 1993 in the United States. 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. A third film is in development for Disney+.

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In 1968, Deloris Wilson is a young Catholic school student, who does not take her studies seriously and greatly embarrasses her nun teachers while showing an affinity for music.

Twenty-four years later, in 1992, Deloris is a lounge singer in Reno, Nevada, performing as Deloris Van Cartier, in a club owned by her married gangster boyfriend Vince LaRocca. She then receives a shallow gift from Vince, and attempts to return it, only to witness Vince executing an informant. When he sets out to murder her as well, Deloris goes to the police for further assistance. Police lieutenant Eddie Souther places her in witness protection, and brings her to Saint Katherine's Parish, in a run-down neighborhood in San Francisco, for her to hide out in their struggling convent.

Both Deloris, and the disgruntled head nun of St. Katherine's, Reverend Mother, object to this arrangement, but Lt. Souther, and Monsignor O'Hara, the parishpriest, convince them to go along with it, with the added deal that the police will pay the failing co