Nuns on the Run

Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane team up for this bad boy comic burlesque, directed by Jonathan Lynn. Idle and Coltrane play Brian Hope and Charlie McManus, a pair of two-bit hoods who want to go straight, repulsed by the increasing reliance on guns and violence in their line of work. In thrall to ...more

Nuns on the Run is just the type of madcap farce that Monty Python veteran Eric Idle would find fulfilling, and though it falls short of Python's wit in the dialogue department, it's a fairly diverting bit of silliness. Although it came out before the similar hit Sister Act, as well as Robbie Coltrane's other well-known religious fish-out-of-water comedy The Pope Must Die, Nuns on the Run nonetheless is pretty predictable in its set-ups and payoffs. Both actors address their roles with bug-eyed ...more