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Nuns on the Run

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Nuns on the Run
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PG13,1hr 35min
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1990
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Anchor Bay
Synopsis: Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane team up for this bad boy comic burlesque, directed by Jonathan Lynn. Idle and Coltrane play Brian Hope and Charlie McManus, a pair of two-bit hoods who want to go straight, repulsed by the increasing reliance on guns and violence in their line of work. In thrall to vicious gangster Case Casey (Robert Patterson), the duo determine that their next job will be their last. When a large amount of money is extracted from a gang of Hong Kong drug dealers and it falls into the ... Full Synopsis
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Nuns on the Run is just the type of madcap farce that Monty Python veteran Eric Idle would find fulfilling, and though it falls short of Python's wit in the dialogue department, it's a fairly diverting bit of silliness. Although it came out before the similar hit Sister Act, as well as Robbie Coltrane's other well-known religious fish-out-of-water comedy The Pope Must Die, Nuns on the Run nonetheless ... Full Review
Featured Cast
Brian Hope
Charlie McManus
Sister Superior
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