Camille Coduri, Colin Campbell, Doris Hare

You'll finding yourself rooting for this movie to take off in a sustained flight of comic inspiration, but it seldom does. It's too bad that it doesn't, given the casting, because both leads (Eric Idl...( read more  read more... )e and Robbie Coltrane) are capable of extreme funniness. Idle and Coltrane play a couple of low-level crooks who decide to get a piece of the action for themselves and abscond with the loot from a big score. But they're discovered before they can get away and their only avenue of egress is into a convent. So they don habits and hide out by pretending to be nuns, teaching parochial school to budding young girls. Now think about the possibilities in that premise, and anything you can think of is in the film (though Coltrane remains one of the funniest men alive). --Marshall Fine

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PG-13, 89 min

Directed by: Jonathan Lynn

Release Date: March 16, 1990

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DVD Release Date: April 5, 2005

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  • September 25, 2009
    Eric Idle & Robbie Coltrane make a great pair of crooks hiding from the Mob dressed as nuns. It?s a classic! Eric Idle in drag is shockingly similar to my Gran, God rest her soul!
  • November 17, 2007
    saw this and after looking at robbie's prolie page i realized he was Hagrid... and its like omg..lol.
  • June 12, 2007
    An ok comedy as 2 bank robbers go undercover as nuns.
  • May 14, 2007
    Typically of British comedy, this film take two very funny men and drops them into one cliched witless situation after another in the vain hope of making the audience laugh. The result is the usual unfunny schmaltz and two middle aged men running around in drag. Ho ho.
  • September 18, 2006
    This movie was way before it's time. The movie encorporated drag and the catholic church all in the same movie!
  • October 31, 2009
    Very funny British comedy.Starring Eric Idle and Robert Coltrane as two bank robbers on the run and hide out as nuns. The film has many funny scenes. Both Eric and Robbie are very funny in this. I got some good laughs from it. Worth a watch.
  • October 29, 2009
    A brilliant film about Brian and Charlie the two 'gangster' who want out of robbing banks and doing their bosses dirty work so decide to stitch their group up and leg with the money on the next job; however it does'nt go to plan as they cant slip away and have to find sanctuary i...( read more)n a church and nuns teaching college.

    so along comes the drag and bemused girlfriend and the infamous line of 'spectacles, testacles, wallet and watch'. its a good British film.

    Its a pleasant film with funny lines from everyone and has a great ending.
  • October 1, 2009
    brit comedy is great
  • September 24, 2009
    A Channel 4 late night classic when i was a kid, but not a classic movie.
  • August 20, 2009
    Simple, silly fun. Coltrane and Idle have great chemistry, and Camille Coduri and Janet Suzman are both hilarious. A movie that asks little of its viewers and pleases easily. It starts off a little slowly, but the ending is superb.

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