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* FantasyForbiddingFather: Distaff example. Rita's mother is determined to squash her dreams of becoming a singer. She won't even allow her to join the school choir as an extra curricular because she thinks she should be spending all her time studying to get into a good college. Rita's mother doesn't realize that colleges are more likely to accept her daughter if she presents things like being in the choir.

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* FantasyForbiddingFather: Distaff example. Rita's mother is determined to squash her dreams of becoming a singer. She won't even allow her to join the school choir as an extra curricular because she thinks she should be spending all her time studying to get into a good college. Rita's mother doesn't realize Nevermind that it's a constructive hobby that keeps Rita from running the streets, or that colleges are more likely to accept her daughter if she presents things like being in the choir.look favorably on students with extracurriculars on their records.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Shortly after Deloris goes into hiding, Detective Tate casually asks Souther where he "stashed" her and Souther refuses to tell him. [[spoiler: Tate later turns out to be the "leak" that was giving away witnesses' hiding places, including Deloris' when he found out.]]
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* AngerBornOfWorry: After finding out that Deloris snuck out to a bar and that Mary Patrick and Mary Robert had followed her, the Reverend Mother angry yells at Deloris for being so cavalier about her safety and that of others, as its her responsibility to ensure their well-being and the convent's walls are the only protection she can provide.
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Misuse - the film doesn't refer back to his past role


* ActorAllusion: This isn't the first time Creator/HarveyKeitel played [[{{Film/Bugsy}} a mobster]].
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* AbridgedForChildren: A one-act adaptation of the musical titled "Sister Act Jr." can be performed by schools. This version removes all references to guns (Ernie dies offstage in an ambiguous way, implied to have been thrown out a window), most death references except for Ernie's death, all uses of inappropriate language and Deloris's various blasphemous uses of God and Jesus's names in vain, and much of Curtis's threatening behavior in general. Some songs including "When I Find My Baby" are cut entirely, but Curtis now sings in "Lady in the Long Black Dress" instead of exiting the stage just before the song.
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One of the most popular comedies of TheNineties, and up there with ''Film/Ghost1990'' as one of Whoopi Goldberg's most famous roles, with a cast of beloved character actors and a magnificently long-suffering Maggie Smith as the Mother Superior. The film also drew praise from both Catholics and actual nuns, as the film portrays Catholicism in general and nuns in particular as warm, welcoming, and human (as opposed to some of the other [[NunsAreSpooky popular]] [[NaughtyNuns portrayals]]). The biggest draw is probably the music itself, which reinterprets such classics as "My Guy" into a religious format. In 2006, the movie was [[ScreenToStageAdaptation made into a stage musical]], with songs by Music/AlanMenken.

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One of the most popular comedies of TheNineties, and up there with ''Film/Ghost1990'' as one of Whoopi Goldberg's most famous roles, with a cast of beloved character actors and a magnificently long-suffering Maggie Smith as the Mother Superior. The film also drew praise from both Catholics and actual nuns, as the film portrays Catholicism in general and nuns in particular as warm, welcoming, and human (as opposed to some of the other [[NunsAreSpooky popular]] [[NaughtyNuns portrayals]]). The biggest draw is probably the music itself, which reinterprets such classics as "My Guy" into a religious format. In 2006, the movie was [[ScreenToStageAdaptation [[Theatre/SisterAct made into a stage musical]], with songs by Music/AlanMenken.
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* TechnicianPerformerTeamUp: The Mother Superior of the convent is the Technician, as she is old-fashioned and believes in discipline and order in all things, including the choir and its song choices. Deloris, who's in witness protection as "Sister Mary Clarence," is the Performer--as a Vegas lounge singer, she knows how to wow a crowd and use choreography and staging in addition to rollicking music. Though they initially butt heads, they eventually [[IntergenerationalFriendship grow to respect each other]]; their healed relationship is demonstrated by the concert at the end of the film, which has the nuns sing "I Will Follow Him" in both Mother Superior and Deloris's styles (it begins as a traditional madrigal then transitions to a gospel performance).
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** The Pope did not come to San Francisco specifically to hear the choir. He was in San Fran anyway and requested a concert.
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* ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: Father Thomas once tells Deloris that he has a message for her despite working for the Catholic Church, not for FedEx.

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* ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: Father Thomas once tells Deloris that he has a message for her despite working for the Catholic Church, not for FedEx.[=FedEx=].
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* PunBasedTitle: The term "sister act" originally comes from the vaudeville circuit, referring to a performance by two or more biological sisters. Here, it's used to refer to nuns.

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* PunBasedTitle: The term "sister act" originally comes from the vaudeville circuit, vaudeville, referring to a performance by two or more a group of biological sisters. Here, it's used to refer to nuns.

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* BigBad: Vince, who will do anything to stay out of prison, killing anyone who could rat him out including Deloris.

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* BigBad: Vince, who will do anything to stay out of prison, killing anyone who could rat him out out, including Deloris.Deloris.
* BigDamnHeroes: In the climax, [[spoiler: just as Vince is about to shoot Deloris, cue the window shattering to reveal Souther, who's just shot Vince.]]


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* SoundOnlyDeath: Ernie's execution. We cut to Deloris just before the gun goes off.
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** Tyler has never heard of Music/TheSupremes, but he does at least know who [[FaceOfTheBand Diana Ross]] is. Justified that he's just a teenager unfamiliar with 1960s girl groups.

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** Tyler has never heard of Music/TheSupremes, but he does at least know who [[FaceOfTheBand Diana Ross]] Ross is. Justified that he's just a teenager unfamiliar with 1960s girl groups.
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* PunBasedTitle: The term "sister act" originally comes from the vaudeville circuit, referring to a performance by two or more sisters in the biological sense. Here, it gets repurposed to refer to nuns.

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* PunBasedTitle: The term "sister act" originally comes from the vaudeville circuit, referring to a performance by two or more sisters in the biological sense. sisters. Here, it gets repurposed it's used to refer to nuns.
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* ArtisticLicenseReligion: The films play fast and loose with various common nun tropes and stereotypes, the most notable being how they use "nun" and "sister" more or less interchangeably. Both are types of women religious, but Catholic nuns live largely cloistered lives of prayer and devotion, whereas Catholic sisters are more about public outreach under "simple" vows and helping their local communities. The first film identifies the specific order Deloris ends up in as being of Carmelite nuns, who wouldn't normally operate in the public social capacity that they do even before Deloris shook things up, nor wear those old-fashioned habits (which appear more in line with other orders like the Sisters of St. Joseph).
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* AbridgedForChildren: A one-act adaptation of the musical titled "Sister Act Jr." can be performed by schools. This version removes all references to guns (Ernie dies offstage in an ambiguous way, implied to have been thrown out a window), most death references except for Ernie's death, all uses of inappropriate language and Deloris's various blasphemous uses of God and Jesus's names in vain, and much of Curtis's threatening behavior in general. Some songs including "When I Find My Baby" are cut entirely, but Curtis now sings in "Lady in the Long Black Dress" instead of exiting the stage just before the song.
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* ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: Father Thomas once tells Deloris that he have a message for her despite working for the catholic Church, not for FedEx.

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* ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: Father Thomas once tells Deloris that he have has a message for her despite working for the catholic Catholic Church, not for FedEx.
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* ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: Father Thomas once tells Deloris that he have a message for her despite working for the catholic Church, not for Fedex.

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* ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: Father Thomas once tells Deloris that he have a message for her despite working for the catholic Church, not for Fedex.FedEx.

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