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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0013131298192
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 05, 2005
Running Time: 92 minutes
Sales Rank: 36737
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Theatrical Release Date: March 16, 1990
Editorial Review:
Description:
Brian and Charlie work for a gangster. When the boss learns they want to 'leave' he sets them up to be killed, after they help rob the local Triads of their drug dealing profits. B&C decide to steal the money for themselves, but when their escape doesn't go to plan, they have to seek refuge in a Nuns' teacher training school. Disguised as nuns, B & C have to avoid their boss, Triads, police and Brians's girlfriend. There's also the problem of them being men disguised as nuns in an all women institution.
Amazon.com:
You'll finding yourself rooting for this movie to take off in a sustained flight of comic inspiration, but it seldom does. It's too bad that it doesn't, given the casting, because both leads (Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane) are capable of extreme funniness. Idle and Coltrane play a couple of low-level crooks who decide to get a piece of the action for themselves and abscond with the loot from a big score. But they're discovered before they can get away and their only avenue of egress is into a convent. So they don habits and hide out by pretending to be nuns, teaching parochial school to budding young girls. Now think about the possibilities in that premise, and anything you can think of is in the film (though Coltrane remains one of the funniest men alive). --Marshall Fine
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Nuns on the Run Lots of Laughs!
Hey, it's Eric Idle with nuns and slapstick humor and sort of a crazy Billy Wilder type plot. It's sort of predictable but I've watched it probably a dozen times and it's always good for putting you in a good mood.
Rating:  - Nuns on the Run
Nuns on the Run is nonstop fun, I enjoyed it the first time I saw it, and now again. The story has some quirks, Camille Coduri as the shortsighted
girlfriend is hilarious and Eric Idle is at his best, I like him ever since I saw him in the Life of Brian.
Everybody who doesn't take Religion too seriously, will enjoy this film.
Rating: - One of our favorites
We have been fans of Nuns on the Run since way back in the tape days. It is great to have the DVD version.
Rating: - you call this going straight???
eric idle and robbie coltrane make a hilarious pair, in habit and out. their misguided adventures in the dangerous world of crime are inspired. throw in a gambling nun,the triads,two greasy henchmen- not to mention a legally blind girlfriend- and you have quite a busy time. by the time sister liz sorts it all out, it really is "every nun for himself"! enjoy!!
Rating:  - Good fun!
Really a lot more entertaining than it should be, this is to all intents and purposes a one-gag film. Petty crooks Brian (Eric Idle of Monty Python fame) and Charlie (Robbie Coltrane) are on the run from the police after they have a plan to steal a suitcase full of money from the Triads and then run off to Brazil with it. So in an attempt to "go straight" they hide out in a convent dressed as nuns, attempting to pass themselves off as the genuine article.
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