Product Details

• Actors: Eric Idle, Robbie Coltrane, Camille Coduri, Janet Suzman, Doris Hare
• Directors: Jonathan Lynn
• Writers: Jonathan Lynn
• Producers: Denis O'Brien, George Harrison, Michael White, Simon Bosanquet
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• VHS Release Date: June 16, 1993
• Run Time: 89 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 630174411X
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #258,750 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful light hearted romp, April 2, 2005

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Bromptonboy "Bromptonboy" (Doylestown, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nuns on the Run (DVD)

A very enjoyable movie - not exactly high brow humor, or not typical off beat Pythonesque humor (Eric Idle of Monty Python fame is Brian, and Robbie Coltrane of the Cracker series is Charlie). Brian and Charlie are gangsters who after stealing some drug money from the London triad, and avoiding a double cross from their boss, take 'sanctuary' in a convent. They do this by hiding as drag-Nuns; Sister Euphemia and Sister Inviolata (to see Robbie Coltrane in a nun's habit is a howl).
Brian and Charlie manage to have a positive effect on the nunnery, and they even repent (of a sorts) - but without returning the money of course (The good guys win - according to Brian's logic - when drug money is used for good works!).
There is some light hearted making fun of Catholicism here, but it is not mean spirited, so it shouldn't offend anyone. Charlie - who grew up Catholic - defends the church a few times while discussing religion with Brian.
Break out the popcorn, and fire up the movie and enjoy!

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars FUNNY, UGLY NUNS, April 22, 2005

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Robin Simmons (Palm Springs area, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nuns on the Run (DVD)

If the last Pope was John Paul. Why isn't the new one George Ringo?

Irreverent Catholic humour abounds in NUNS ON THE RUN (Anchor Bay), a low brow romp that follows Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane -- two crooks with loot taken from bigger crooks -- into a convent where they don habits and pretend to be nuns assigned to teaching young girls.

I laughed out loud at these desperate, inept, ugly nuns and their silly complications.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally, a great film comes to DVD, September 3, 2005

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Mazkoor Shariff "dackjawson" (Green Bay, WI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nuns on the Run (DVD)

An early film of Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid of Harry Potter fame) is a fantastically humorous film, especially if you are or know something about Catholicism. Robbie's explanation of the Holy Trinity will have you in stitches. And the method he uses to remember the proper way of making the sign of the cross is still the way I remember it. Buy this film!!!