Sister Act~ "I Will Follow Him"
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.
It also inspired the musical Sister Act that premiered at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California in 2006, and opened at the West End's London Palladium with previews from May 7, 2009.
The musical then opened on Broadway at the Broadway Theatre in April 2011, with previews beginning March 24, 2011.
Sister Act is widely regarded as one of the best and the most financially successful comedies of the 1990s[2], The film also is #83 on Bravo's The 100 Funniest Movies list.
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| Directed by | Emile Ardolino |
| Produced by | Scott Rudin Teri Schwartz |
| Written by | Joseph Howard |
| Starring | Whoopi Goldberg Maggie Smith Kathy Najimy Wendy Makkena Mary Wickes Bill Nunn and Harvey Keitel |
| Music by | Marc Shaiman |
| Cinematography | Adam Greenberg |
| Editing by | Colleen Halsey Richard Halsey |
| Distributed by | Touchstone Pictures |
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| Running time | 100 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $231,605,150[1] |
Plot
The film opens at St. Anne's Academy, a California Catholic school in 1968, where a young girl named Deloris Wilson is scolded for wisecracking and disobeying rules.
The setting then changes to the present day, where Deloris Van Cartier is a lounge singer working in a casino called The Moonlight Lounge, located in Reno, Nevada run by her boyfriend, Vince LaRocca, a mobster.
After Deloris witnesses Vince executing a chauffeur, Vince orders his men Joey and Willy to kill her too.
Deloris flees Vince's casino to the local police station where Lieutenant Eddie Souther suggests she testify against Vince if he can be arrested and tried, but for now, she should go into witness protection until the time comes.
Deloris is taken to St. Katherine's Roman Catholic Church in a seedy run down neighborhood of San Francisco, where Souther suggests she disguise herself as a nun.
Both Deloris and the Reverend Mother object, but are convinced by Souther and Monsignor O'Hara to go ahead with it. Deloris becomes a nun and is given the name "Sister Mary Clarence".
Mary Clarence objects to following the simple lives of the nunnery, but comes to befriend several of the nuns, including the forever jolly Sister Mary Patrick, quiet and meek Sister Mary Robert, and the elderly deadpan Sister Mary Lazarus.
After sneaking into a nearby bar, Mary Clarence is punished by Reverend Mother and put into the choir, which she has seen to be dreadful.
The choir nuns, having heard "Sister Mary Clarence" has a background in music, elect her to take over as choir director, which she accepts, and she rearranges them to make them better singers.
At the Sunday Mass, the choir sings perfectly before going into a gospel and rock and roll-infused performance of "Hail Holy Queen".
The Reverend Mother is infuriated, but Monsignor O'Hara is thrilled as the music brought people in off the streets.
The choir cleans up the neighborhood and wows church-goers with their music, with Souther eventually attending a performance of "My Guy" (appropriately rewritten as "My God").
Eventually, O'Hara announces to the choir that Pope John Paul II is to visit the church to see the choir himself.
Reverend Mother decides to hand in her resignation since her authority has been unintentionally undermined, but Mary Clarence offers to leave in her stead, to which the Reverend Mother disagrees.
Detective Tate, a police officer on Vince's payroll, finds out where Deloris is and contacts Vince, who sends Joey and Willy out to grab her.
Souther realizes Tate's betrayal, has him arrested, and flies to San Francisco to warn Mary Clarence, but she is kidnapped by Vince's men.
The nuns, led by the Reverend Mother risk their lives by going to Reno to save Mary Clarence.
Meanwhile, she escapes Vince and his men, leading to a chase around the casino until the nuns find her and try to sneak out.
Vince, Joey and Willy confront the nuns, but are unable to bring themselves to shoot Deloris while she is in a nun's habit, and Souther bursts in, shoots Vince in the arm, and has the men arrested.
The film ends with the choir, led by Deloris, singing before the Pope "I Will Follow Him", earning a round of applause that is led by the Pope and Reverend Mother.
The end credits reveals Deloris' secret life as a nun was sold to the media and has become a sensation.
Controversy
On June 10, 1993, actress Donna Douglas and her partner Curt Wilson in Associated Artists Entertainment,INC., filed a $200 million lawsuit against Disney, Whoopi Goldberg, Bette Midler, their production companies, and Creative Artists Agency claiming the film was plagiarized from a book A Nun in the Closet owned by the partners.Douglas and Wilson claimed that in 1985 they had developed a screenplay for the book. The lawsuit claimed that there were over 100 similarities and plagiarisms between the movie and the book/screenplay owned by Douglas and Wilson.
The lawsuit further claimed that the developed screenplay had been submitted to Disney, Goldberg, and Midler three times during 1987 and 1988.[11]
In 1994, Douglas and Wilson declined a $1 million offer in an attempt to win the case. The judge found in favor of Disney and the other defendants.
Wilson stated at the time, “They would have had to copy our stuff verbatim for us to prevail.”[12]
In November 2011, a nun named Deloris Blakely filed a lawsuit against the Walt Disney Company and Sony Pictures claiming that "The Harlem Street Nun," an autobiography she wrote in 1987, was the basis for the 1992 film.
She alleged that a movie executive expressed an interest in the rights to the movie after she wrote a three page synopsis.
She is suing for "breach of contract, misappropriation of likeness and unjust enrichment." [13]
Blakely dropped the original lawsuit in January 2012 to serve a more robust lawsuit in late August 2012 with the California Sherif's Department, asking for $1 billion in damages from Disney.[14][15]
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