Nuns on the Run – 1990 | 89 mins | Comedy, Crime | Colour

Plot Synopsis

Essentially Billy Wilder’s Some like It Hot in habits, Nuns on the Run is a chaotic screwball comedy directed by Jonathan Lynn that serves up an endless stream of double entendres and visual comic clichés. There’s good comic cross-dressing chemistry between Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane, Janet Suzman has fun playing a deliciously down-to-earth Sister Superior and Camille Coduri makes the most of her limited role as the short-sighted love interest.

Disillusioned small-time crooks, Brian (Eric Idle) and Charlie (Robbie Coltrane), decide the time has come to go straight. However, they elect to head off to pastures new with £1 million of loot stolen from the Triads; much to the annoyance of the Chinese, the ruthless Mob boss Casey (Robert Patterson) who wanted the money for himself, and the police investigating the subsequent London street shootout. Brian and Charlie are forced to flee for their lives when their getaway car runs out of petrol, and in an attempt to escape detection they hide out in an inner-city convent, disguised as nuns. They are soon joined by the only witness to the robbery, Brian’s girlfriend Faith (Camille Coduri).