Revealing mistake: After Mary Robert jumps out of the car, you can see the stunt double falling for her.
Sister Act (1992)
Plot summary
Directed by: Emile Ardolino
Starring: Maggie Smith, Whoopi Goldberg, Kathy Najimy, Wendy Makkena
Deloris (Whoopi Goldberg) is a lounge singer in Reno whose singing career isn't going too well. She witnesses a murder that her married lover commits, and runs away to the police for fear of her life. A detective decides to hide her as a nun in a convent (her name is now Sister Mary Clarence). In the meantime, her ex-boyfriend is searching for her, offering $100,000 (which increases to $250,000) for her body - dead or alive.
The church/convent (St. Catherine's), which is located in a run-down neigborhood in San Francisco, has a very small congregation and not-so-good choir (made up of a group of nuns). Sister Mary Clarence eventually uses her musical talent to teach the nuns how to sing in harmony, and they sound wonderful. The nuns also get involved in their community, thus gaining popularity. Masses are now completely full of young and old, and the pope even hears of the excellent choir and plans to visit the church.
Meanwhile, a bad co-worker of the detective finds out that Deloris is at this convent, and he reveals this information to the ex-boyfriend. His side-kicks kidnap her and take her to Reno. This is when the other nuns find out that she's really a lounge singer, but want to go after her to save her from being killed. The detective is also on his way to Reno to save her.
Finally, after the side-kicks are unable to kill her (because she's dressed like a nun and they don't want to kill a nun), the ex-boyfriend decides to take matters into his own hands. He's about to pull the trigger on her, when you see that he actually gets shot (by the detective).
The bad guys get sent to jail, and Deloris goes back to the convent to conduct the nuns in their big performance for the pope who comes to visit. She's wearing the black robes, without the headpiece like the rest of the nuns. The congregation and the pope enjoy this performance, and St. Catherine's is now a revived church in a revived neighborhood.
Grace
More mistakes in Sister Act
Biker: If this turns into a nuns' bar, I'm outta here!
Trivia: In the last scene, when the choir sings at the church, the Blues Brothers can be seen on the background in exactly the same position as the church number in the Blues Brothers film.
Question: Why does the young red-headed nun, that doesn't sing very loud (can't remember her name), wear a different habit?
Join the mailing list
Separate from membership, this is to get updates about mistakes in recent releases. Addresses are not passed on to any third party, and are used solely for direct communication from this site. You can unsubscribe at any time.
Check out the mistake & trivia books, on Kindle and in paperback.
Answer: It is because she is not, technically, a nun yet. She is a novice, one who is in the "trial period" of becoming a nun, but who has not made the final vows to join the order.
Twotall
She doesn't wear a white cap in the second movie either, and she did her vows.
It takes 9 - 12 years to become a nun, with many stages: discernment, aspirancy, postulancy, novitiate, temporary vows, and finally, solemn vows. The young nun in the film would not yet have taken her solemn vows. Also, the various stages have differences in the habits (uniforms), headdress, insignia, etc. In addition, different orders wear different styles of habits.
raywest ★