The number of “nun comedies” is fairly small — “Sister Act” and “Nuns On The Run” come to mind, and that’s about it — but the genre is about to get shaken up with the raunchy, foul “The Little Hours.”
Alison Brie, Dave Franco, Kate Micucci, and Aubrey Plaza lead the movie, in which nuns on an otherwise quiet convent get their world rocked when a hunky new servant comes to work alongside them. Here’s the official synopsis:
Medieval nuns Alessandra (Alison Brie), Fernanda (Aubrey Plaza), and Ginevra (Kate Micucci) lead a simple life in their convent. Their days are spent chafing at monastic routine, spying on one another, and berating the estate’s day laborer. After a particularly vicious insult session drives the peasant away, Father Tommasso (John C. Reilly) brings on new hired hand Massetto (Dave Franco), a virile young servant forced into hiding by his angry lord. Introduced to the sisters as a deaf-mute to discourage temptation, Massetto struggles to maintain his cover as the repressed nunnery erupts in a whirlwind of pansexual horniness, substance abuse, and wicked revelry.
Co-starring John C. Reilly, Molly Shannon, Fred Armisen, Jemima Kirke, Nick Offerman, Adam Pally, Jon Gabrus, and Lauren Weedman, “The Little Hours” opens on June 30th.