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 vicious gangster Case Casey (Robert Patterson),
the duo determine that their next job will be their last.
When a large amount of money is extracted from a gang of Hong Kong
drug dealers and it falls into the laps of Brian and Charlie, the
two take off with the loot, with the Chinese Triad and Casey in
relentless pursuit. When their car runs out of gas in front of a
convent, Brian and Charlie run inside and disguise themselves as
two of the ugliest nuns imaginable. Inside the convent, Brian and
Charlie pass themselves off as nuns from a different nunnery, assigned
to the convent before leaving the country on missionary work. As
the two men enjoy their undercover work with a collection of nubile
coeds, the bad guys close in on their trail.
Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
Nuns
On The Run
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