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04/02/09
The Sisters (2006)
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Reviews Counted:26
Fresh:8
Rotten:18
Average Rating:4.5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Maria Bello follows up her startling turn in David Cronenberg's A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE by appearing in this low budget adaptation of an Anton Chekov play, originally named THE THREE SISTERS. Bello... [More]
Starring: Elizabeth Banks, Maria Bello, Mary Stuart Masterson, Erika Christensen
Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman
Reviews for The Sisters
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01/16/07
Many films have already tread through the gloomy garden paths that "The Sisters" takes. But it confirms that watching Maria Bello act in many guises is one of the great pleasures of the movies.
07/16/06
Just goes to show you that you can be rich, smart, beautiful, and accomplished ... and still be as miserable as us middle-class drones.
06/23/06
Intelligent, observant entertainment designed for an adult audience.
05/19/06
What we can guess, watching the film, is that the same players would make a good job of Three Sisters but are undermined by the faculty club, which works like a hotel lobby. There's no way to sustain dramatic momentum here.
05/19/06
Top CriticInstead of anti-melodrama laced with surprising moments of comedy, which Chekhov managed, The Sisters settles for bloodless melodrama.
05/18/06
Anyone looking for the playwright's undeniable insight into the female psyche is unlikely to find any such specimen here.
05/12/06
Overwrought psychodrama revolving around the predictable warps and obsessions of three adult siblings.
05/12/06
It's a tedious experience of otherwise promising material and covetous cast.
05/06/06
I liked the performances a lot.
04/17/06
Bello is phenomenally good as the embittered Marcia, while Stuart and Christensen do their best with their less complex roles, but they're all undermined by Alfieri's shrill, mannered dialogue and cliched backstories.
04/14/06
We never tire of watching these actresses (particularly Bello, who's utterly convincingly playing one of those sexy, crazy, intelligent women men go bonkers for). And the movie, though flawed, remains absorbing and, in a ridiculous way, fun.
04/14/06
[Anton Chekhov's The Three Sisters'] egacy of stifled dreams and inter-familial anxieties are as relevant as ever. Updating it, however, should involve more than adding incest, lesbianism and the uncontrolled venting of spleen.
04/14/06
It's a bit of an oversimplification but still a rule no writer should forget: Insufferable characters make for an insufferable play or movie.
04/14/06
Top CriticA low-profile indie that's worth seeking out for Maria Bello's performance.
04/14/06
A pretentious, stagy and over-the-top update of Chekov's The Three Sisters.
04/14/06
Richard Alfieri adapted his Chekhov-inspired stage play for this movie, but the outpouring of suppressed memories and emotions still seem to belong to the more personal realm of theater.
04/14/06
The movie looks horrible. On the few occasions that the action moves outside the chamber room, it's as if the filmmakers were venturing forth on the planet Mars.
04/14/06
an aggressively frustrating and ultimately nonsensical waste of time and talent.
04/13/06
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