Directed by:
Zach ClarkScreenplay:
Zach ClarkCinematography:
Daryl PittmanComposer:
Fritz MyersCast:
Addison Timlin, Ally Sheedy, Keith Poulson, Peter Hedges, Barbara Crampton, Joshua Indenbaum, Kristin Slaysman, Sunita Mani, Aaron Hillis, Ben Rand (more)Plots(1)
October, 2008. Young nun Colleen is avoiding all contact from her family, until an email from her mother announces, "Your brother is home." On returning to her childhood home in Asheville, NC, she finds her old room exactly how she left it: painted black and covered in goth/metal posters. Her parents are happy enough to see her, but unease and awkwardness abounds. Her brother is living as a recluse in the guesthouse since returning home from the Iraq war. During Colleen's visit, tensions rise and fall with a little help from Halloween, pot cupcakes, and GWAR. Little Sister is a sad comedy about family – a schmaltz-free, pathos-drenched, feel good movie for the little goth girl inside us all. (South by Southwest Film Festival)
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Sometimes it seems to me that all it takes is to come up with sufficiently interesting characters and their development. I think this was achieved in the film Little Sister, where it's essentially just about the estranged daughter returning home for a few days. She wants to be a nun, but she has to mend her relationship with her family and her brother, who is disfigured. At first glance, simple; at second, simply excellent.
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