Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit for the third film to happen, adding in July that she would like to direct it and had confidence it would be made. Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit is a 1993 American musical comedy film loosely based on the life of Crenshaw High School choir instructor Iris Stevenson, and starring Whoopi Goldberg. Directed by Bill Duke, and released by Touchstone Pictures, it is the sequel to the successful 1992 film "Sister Act". Most of the original cast reprise their roles in the sequel, including Maggie Smith, Kathy Najimy, Wendy Makkena, and
The Devil in a Convent in the same year, as well as his strongly pro-Dreyfus film series "The Dreyfus Affair". The film may have been inspired in part by the phantasmagoria productions of the French magician Étienne-Gaspard Robert, known by the stage name "Robertson". Méliès himself plays the Devil in the film. "The Devil in a Convent" was likely the first Méliès film to take advantage of dissolves as a transition effect. "The Devil in a Convent" was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 185–187 in its catalogues, which also specified the film's three scenes ("1. Les nonnes, le sermon. 2. Les