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The Other Sister (1999)
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Reviews Counted:48
Fresh:14
Rotten:34
Average Rating:4.7/10
Consensus: Made-for-tv drama evokes anything but real emotion.
Runtime: 2 hrs 10 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Juliette Lewis and Giovanni Ribisi perform admirably as developmentally different young adults who meet and fall in love. As the friends and family of the challenged, the supporting cast shows... Juliette Lewis and Giovanni Ribisi perform admirably as developmentally different young adults who meet and fall in love. As the friends and family of the challenged, the supporting cast shows plenty of the expected love, support, and well-meaning anxiety, but also some refreshingly realistic impatience, frustration, and embarrassment. [More]
Starring: Juliette Lewis, Giovanni Ribisi, Tom Skerritt, Diane Keaton
Starring: Juliette Lewis, Giovanni Ribisi, Tom Skerritt, Diane Keaton, Poppy Montgomery, Linda Thorson
Director: Garry Marshall
Director: Garry Marshall
Screenwriter: Garry Marshall, Bob Brunner
Producer: Mario Iscovich, Alexandra Rose
Composer: Rachel Portman
Reviews for The Other Sister
The charming innocence in this unusual take on first love and first heartbreak gives THE OTHER SISTER its special quality.
Everything is reduced to a transparent formula. And everyone plays their schematic part.
One of the most genuinely sweet love stories to come along in quite some time.
Never manages more than a glib, TV movie-of- the-week glance at their lives.
It’s as dull as a butter knife and slowed to interminable mediocrity, and inadvertently brings to mind the title of Marshall’s autobiography: "Wake Me When It’s Funny."
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