Sister Act (franchise) Sister Act (franchise) Sister Act is a franchise which consists of two films: "Sister Act" (1992), "" (1993), and a Broadway musical. When a lively lounge singer Deloris Van Cartier (Whoopi Goldberg) sees her mobster beau, Vince LaRocca (Harvey Keitel), commit murder, she is relocated for her protection. Set up in the guise of a nun in a California convent, Deloris proceeds to upend the quiet lives of the resident sisters. In an effort to keep her out of trouble, they assign Deloris to the convent's choir, an ensemble that she soon turns into a vibrant and soulful act that
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