A musical comedy finds a soulful singer uplifting a struggling school and its students with broad, wholesome humor.
Crowd-pleasing. A comfort watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it carries some weight.
Streaming on Disney+.
It stays inside its PG, with mild language and nothing scary.
Our estimate: fine from about 7. Rated PG.
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Deloris Van Cartier is again asked to don the nun's habit to help a run-down Catholic school, presided over by Mother Superior. And if trying to reach out to a class full of uninterested students wasn't bad enough, the sisters discover that the school is due to be closed by the unscrupulous chief of a local authority.
Yes. It lands on a happy note.
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