Dixie: Changing Habits
Before there was "Sister Act" there was...
NR 1983 · 100 min · ★ 4.2 · Comedy, Drama, TV Movie
Dixie is caught operating a whorehouse, and is sentenced to 90 days house arrest in a convent! Can Dixie bend to the ways of the convent nuns to avoid jail?
Directed by George Englund · Written by John Considine
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Suzanne Pleshette Dixie Cabot -
Cloris Leachman Sister Eugenio -
Kenneth McMillan Tony Marchesso -
John Considine Steven Moss -
Geraldine Fitzgerald Sister Agnes -
Judith Ivey Sister Margaret - M Maureen Silliman Sister Theresa
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Susan Kellermann Sister John the Baptist -
Richard Hamilton Judge Delaney -
Monique van de Ven Sherry Bouvais -
Don Hood Bob Hagar -
Robert Picardo Harry Meadows
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