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Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

>Sister Act (blu-ray) 1992 musical starring Whoopi Goldberg as a singer 
>dating a gangster (hey that's Harvey Keitel) who she accidentally 
>witnesses murdering someone (hey that's Rom from Star Trek: DS9).  She 
>runs to the police and the police hide her with a group of nuns in San 
>Francisco headed by Maggie Smith. At first she doesn't fit in, but when 
>she discovered they have a choir she quickly takes over and brings them 
>success.  I don't think I've watched this since the early 90s.  It holds 
>up very well.

This is timeless because it's such a basic plot that even Hollywood
cannot fuck up.

For some reason I was thinking Lilia Skala was in this movie as an elderly
nun but she's not. She was in Flashdance and I can't picture her
character.

>The Others (4K disc) - Another squeeze in.  This is a 2001 movie 
>starring Nicole Kidman as the mother of two young children with a 
>condition that prevents them from being in sunlight.  She and her newly 
>hired caretakers try their best to protect the children from the sun, 
>but they soon discover there are "others" also living in the home who 
>don't like keeping the curtains closed.  A pre Doctor Who Christopher 
>Eccleston also pops up as the children's father.  If you've never seen 
>this movie before it's worth watching, but best to go in knowing as 
>little about it as possible.

Hey! How did this fit into your Whoopi Goldberg marathon?