Helen FitzGerald in Nuns on the Run (1990)

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Two classes of generally humorless people are quite as often unintentionally funny as any other: the stiff and proper British and cloistered women who have dedicated themselves to marriage with our Lord. Nuns on the Run (1990) combines both these dour factions in a sly, wicked send-up of everything from religion to gangsters that is equally successful as slapstick and cerebral wit. A pair of hapless thugs learns that their mob boss has called for their heads. The doomed twosome hatches a counterattack, steals the godfather blind, and botches their escape, forcing them to take refuge as bogus sisters behind convent walls. From there events become a little unlikely and highly hysterical.