Sister Act Sister Act Sister Act is a 1992 American comedy film directed by Emile Ardolino and written by Joseph Howard, with musical arrangements by Marc Shaiman. It stars Whoopi Goldberg as a lounge singer forced to join a convent after being placed in a witness protection program. It also features Maggie Smith, Kathy Najimy, Wendy Makkena, Mary Wickes, and Harvey Keitel. "Sister Act" was one of the most financially successful comedies of the early 1990s, grossing $231 million worldwide. The film spawned a franchise, which consists of a 1993 sequel, "", and a musical adaptation, which premiered in 2006. A remake
The Devil in a Convent démons, le sabbat. 3. Le clergé, l'exorcisme"). In 2010, the Cinémathèque Basque received a donation of a box of 35mm films, recovered by a private individual in 1995 from a garbage bin in Bilbao. The box was found to contain 32 films, including hand-colored prints of "The Devil in a Convent" and another 1899 Méliès film, "The Mysterious Knight". Previously, these two films had only been available in black-and-white copies. The hand-colored print of "The Devil in a Convent" was judged to be in too advanced a state of decomposition to be restored completely; however, the third scene of the