Whoopi Goldberg's performance as Deloris Van Cartier in Sister Act is considered one of her greatest. The film, released in 1992, features a storyline about a lounge singer who hides in a convent after witnessing a mob hit.
Louise Pearl's one-woman show Pass the Nails and Shame The Devil recounts the experience of her family's ordeal building their own house amid Oakland's 1980s crack epidemic as her strong-willed, Louisiana-born mother and gather a motley crew of men to make this dream home into a reality.