Delores Van Cartier is a singer who wants to make it big. She is having a romance with a guy called Vince but when he won't leave his wife she breaks up with him.After wards, she witnesses a murder which was ordered by Vince. Delores runs to the police who say she must stay in hiding for a while. However this hiding place isn't an old run down house, or a caravan no, it's a convent! Delores' new identity is Sister Mary Clarence. However Delores, doesn't just sit around all day in the lifeless, boring convent, no she goes clubbing and makes friends with the nuns. She also turns the dull, lifeless choir into a hip one which makes the church more popular with young people. However how long will it be before knowledge of this choir and Delores reaches Vince?

Screenwriter Paul Rudnick wrote the original script back in 1987 and Bette Midler was supposed to be cast for the role of Dolores. After Midler had left the project, the script underwent several re-writes by screenwriters Carrie Fisher, Eleanor Bergstein, Nancy Meyers, Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr. and Robert Harling. As Rudnick did not consider the final draft of the movie as his own work, the pseudonym 'Joseph Howard' was chosen by him after his own suggestion for the writer's credit ('Screenplay by Goofy') had been rejected.

[in a casino, to a group of nuns all dressed in full habit]


Reverend Mother:
Brace yourself, sisters. Spread out and look for Mary Clarence. Try to blend in.

Continuity: The crystal glass on Mother Superior's desk when she meets Deloris.

Written by Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland (as Edward Holland)