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Perfect Sisters
Things seem to be very bad for two teenage girls who have been abused. They are Sandra and Pete who can count on each other day after day. The addicted mother plans to move the two girls with her lustful lover, a longtime abuse specialist. Sandra and Pitt go on a dangerous path when she tries to recruit classmates to plan to kill her mother.
23 October 1987, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3 January 1981, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
18 May 1992, New York City, New York, USA
25 August 1962, Chicago, Illinois, USA
21 August 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
30 November 1973, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
23 February 1949, Altoona, Pennsylvania, USA
21 January 1987, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
9 July 1995, Ilkley, Yorkshire, England, UK
April 18, 2014
Exists in a soupy, unpersuasive middle ground, neither touching the rich, charged atmosphere of Heavenly Creatures, nor aiming for something more darkly comedic or rooted in social commentary.
April 11, 2014
Brooks crafts a glorified basic cable movie, complete with stiff staging, obvious performances, and clunky screenwriting that turns absolute horror into unintentional comedy.
April 08, 2014
Any potential for an in-depth examination of the adolescent psyche pushed to its limits goes unmet, though not for lack of trying.
February 11, 2015
Murder, booze, drugs in melodramatic true-crime movie.
March 10, 2014
A marginal film elevated, however inadvertently, by the strange specificity of its scenes
April 10, 2014
The film owes whatever persuasiveness it has to the teen leads' sharp performances - their sisterly chemistry and their filial friction with an alcohol-addled mother, well played by Mira Sorvino.
April 11, 2014
What should have been suspenseful, even terrifying, is tiresome thanks to mostly predictable treatment.
April 08, 2014
There must have been a better way to enter into this promising script than with cheesy kite-flying on the beach and slo-mo waves.
April 10, 2014
Ms. Breslin and especially Ms. Henley are quite good, elevating a film that seems like an oft-told tale.
April 11, 2014
A cartoonish and crudely staged dramatization of a disturbing true crime.
April 10, 2014
This kind of thing requires a velvet touch, though director Stanley M. Brooks hits only hammer-heavy notes.