Nuns on the Run (1990)
Directed by Jonathan Lynn
Set up by their boss to be knocked off following a final heist, soon-to-retire crooks Brian Hope and Charlie McManus get wind of their impending demise and run off with the spoils of their crime. Fleeing their boss, the drug dealers they robbed, the police, and Brian's angry girlfriend, the duo take refuge in a training convent for nuns. In disguise, they convince Sister Superior that they're nuns, a charade they're forced to maintain as their enemies arrive.
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The great Jean Reno (see "The Professional") seems sedated and Alfred Molina's ("Spider-Man 2") Bishop Aringarosa seems to have stepped out of "Nuns on the Run."
Director Jonathan Lynn ("Nuns on the Run") and screenwriter Dale Launer ("Ruthless People," "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels") have both done better.
It was written by Dale Launer, who wrote "Ruthless People" and "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," and directed by Jonathan Lynn, the Englishman who wrote and directed "Nuns on the Run" and collaborated on the scripts for the English television series "Yes, Minister" and "Yes, Prime Minister."
Britain's Jonathan Lynn of "Nuns on the Run" probably wouldn't know a Moon Pie from a pecan cluster, but he was chosen to direct this Wazhoo City, Ala.-set…