Nuns on the Run
- Eric Idle: Brian Hope ( sister Euphemia )
- Robbie Coltrane: Charlie McManus ( sister Inviolata )
- Camille Coduri: Faith Thomas ( Brian's girlfriend)
- Janet Suzman: Sister Liz
- Doris Hare: Sister Mary ( of the Sacred Heart )
- Lila Kaye: Sister Mary ( of the Annunciation )
- Robert Patterson: Gang leader Casey
- Robert Morgan: Abbott
- Winston Dennis: Morley
- Tom Hickey: Father Seamus
Nuns on the Run ( Original title: Nuns on the Run) is a British comedy film from the year 1990 was directed by Jonathan Lynn, who also wrote the screenplay.. The main roles were played by Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane.
Action
The gangsters Brian Hope and Charlie McManus want to get off. They steal the gang leader Casey money that was intended for a drug business with the Chinese triads. On the run they are hiding as a nun dressed in a nunnery.
There, there will be many problems and temptations, as the men look after gym class showering students. Brian meets in the panel with the short-sighted Faith, which does not recognize him and the supposed nun reveals her feelings towards Brian. The father and brothers of Brian's girlfriend Faith Thomas look for him to get even with him.
Faith Thomas goes to a hospital. Brian and Charlie want to leave the country with the money suitcases; Brian compels Charlie, on the road to drive past the hospital. Faith beats Brian first, then they want to come. Heading Brian and Charlie lose one of the two money bags, the sister Liz finds him. The money will support a facility for young drug addicts.
Brian and Charlie dress up as nurses. At the airport, they find out that the police are looking for two men dressed as women.
Faith flies alone, the money suitcases is located on the seat beside her. Suddenly she sees the disguised as flight attendants Brian and Charlie.
Reviews
Roger Ebert asked in the Chicago Sun-Times on March 16, 1990, why the film producers would so often assume that the caricaturing of the nuns would be funny. He assumed it would be that many people in the school would have had negative experiences with the nuns. Ebert criticized, only a few parts of the film were " really funny " ( "intrinsically funny" ).
The film was in the lexicon of international film as " overexcited " and " funny ideas " but "without igniting surprises ". He rage " only by some anti-church gags from the dozen offer comparable films" out.