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    The Sisters

    The Sisters
    Actors: Maria Bello, Eric Mccormack
    Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
    Category: DVD

    List Price: $14.98
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    Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 13 reviews
    Sales Rank: 51720

    Format: Color, Dolby, Dvd, Ntsc
    Language: English (Original Language)
    Rating: R (Restricted)
    Region: 1
    Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
    Number Of Discs: 1
    Running Time: 113 Minutes
    Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
    Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6

    MPN: D72101D
    UPC: 013137210198
    EAN: 0013137210198
    ASIN: B000F3UACA

    Theatrical Release Date: 2005
    Release Date: June 13, 2006
    Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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    Editorial Reviews:

    Product Description
    Based on anton chekovs the three sisters about siblings living in a college town who struggle with the death of their father and try to reconcile relationships in their own lives. Studio: Starz/sphe Release Date: 06/13/2006 Starring: Mario Bello Eric Mccormack Run time: 113 minutes Rating: R

    Amazon.com
    Loosely based on the classic Russian play Three Sisters, The Sisters takes Anton Chekov's tale of failed marriages, stunted yearnings, and ordinary unhappiness and injects it with drug addiction, closeted homosexuality, and incest. Three daughters of a noted academic scholar find their lives falling apart: Marcia (Maria Bello, A History of Violence) loathes her psychologist husband and falls into the arms of a visiting old friend (Tony Goldwyn, Ghost); Olga (Mary Stuart Masterson, Fried Green Tomatoes) has turned brittle and secretive, despite a successful career; and Irene (Erika Christensen, The Upside of Anger), the baby of the family, finds herself engaged to a man she doesn't love (Chris O'Donnell, Kinsey). Meanwhile, their hapless brother Andrew (Allesandro Nivolla, Junebug) has married a brassy, vulgar woman all three sisters despise (Elizabeth Banks, Heights). As their dysfunctions collide, everyone talks in lengthy, hyper-articulate, and brutal detail about their problems. But all the actors--especially Bello--dive into their roles with gusto and vigor, drawing out some genuine feeling from this woefully overwritten script. Also featuring Rip Torn (Forty Shades of Blue, Men in Black) and Eric McCormack (Will & Grace). --Bret Fetzer


    Customer Reviews:   Read 8 more reviews...

    1 out of 5 stars The Spewers   July 30, 2008
    The Concise Critic: (New England)
    0 out of 2 found this review helpful

    This is not a movie; it is a rant. This is not a family; it is a cabal. There are no people in this movie; there are only predators. There is no dialogue here; there is only bile.

    Less watchable than pornography (which at least may have attractive flesh) or gore (which may at least have clever invention), this is just undammed hatred.



    2 out of 5 stars Sludge   April 18, 2008
    J. C Clark (Overland Park, KS United States)
    0 out of 1 found this review helpful

    The Sisters

    Well, maybe you have to live in New York to enjoy this. I was afraid there'd be nothing but glowing reviews here. So I'm prepared for a flurry of unhelpful votes. But I found these characters among the most repellent, coarse, insufferable, unpleasant, and foolish people I've had the misfortune to spend two hours with. No one other than the maligned shop girl has a thought for anyone or anything but themselves. These are totally self-absorbed, self-referential, self-contained, self-deluding, self-pitying (and any other self-hyphens you want to include) boors without a trace of anything approaching humanity.

    You know that person who feels it is their duty to speak the truth, no matter how rude, hurtful, unpleasant, quite possibly inaccurate, it might be? Well, imagine spending a few hours with people who sharpen their claws on the backbones of their friends and family members. Even clever insults are still insults, and I prefer not to watch anyone do this. To what point?

    We needn't worry about how this is related to the Chekhov masterpiece. We need only to evaluate this film. And it is just dreadful. From wooden, stilted speeches delivered in a manner that substitutes volume changes for emotion, to a ridiculous little interlude of love making that accomplishes nothing but titillation, to the obligatory Southern incest, and concluding with a phony and unbelievable climax that felt right off a soap opera, this tale is Oprah meets Jerry Springer. There's plenty to dislike here, the quasi-pop psychology, the irritating phony come-and-go accent, the dramatic camera shots designed, I suppose, to look important but that come off as trite, the "don't these people have jobs?" thought that ran through my mind as they whiled away the hours demeaning each other, and the glib and silly conclusion. Folks who read the Internet blogs where hate and snobbery and condescension reign may like more of that bile in their off hours, but I'd rather leave these people and go far, far away.



    5 out of 5 stars Does Chekov credit   January 2, 2007
    R. Swanson (New Mexico)
    1 out of 1 found this review helpful

    This film is terrifically well done. Yes, it's a bit stagey but I liked that. The dialog harks back to the 19th Century, especially in the beginning when the denisons of the Faculty Lounge sparred with each other, over chess and the newspaper. I think the director struck just the right balance of honoring Chekov and serving a modern audience. The performances are perfect. Maria Bello surely deserves an Oscar for this one! How rare to find so much talent so beautifully packaged. The story is dense and complicated as are the characters. There's lots of intensely emotional stuff going on, which could be confusing or overwhelming or exhausting. But it's all done so well that I was carried smoothly through each moment, up to the satisfying conclusion.
    The character of Marcia, played so amazingly by Bello, is the center of the tornado. We hate her, love her, empathize for her and are repelled by her. The outsider, Nancy, is her personal nemesis, and one has to wonder just why Marcia hates her so much, since Marcia is anything but a petty person. Her complaints dwell on class but I think it has more to do with her obvious sexuality which mirrors Marcia's own. Nancy accepts (flaunts) hers while Marcia's sexuality is obviously much more problemmatic. In the end, it seems that Nancy is the real winner, even as she gives up her goal of being one of the sisters. (It's always a treat
    to see Rip Torn.) This is a rich, satisfying film. Enjoy it with friends as it will give you a lot to talk about!



    4 out of 5 stars After slow beginning, 3 stars build intensity & drama...   November 22, 2006
    Fred W. Hood
    1 out of 2 found this review helpful

    It took 15-20 minutes to catch onto the dramatic intensity but three sisters and an obnoxious chess scene with David and Gary convinced me to stay with the Chekhov Story! So much of that dysfunctional family unfolds scene by scene it takes a good while to really grab one with its' full meaning and intensity. Ironically, the chess scene stayed to be the only recurrence for my late night's creative dream. Of course, Hollywood must insert sexual intensity between Marci and the returning hero from their past! All-in-all it took over half the toal length to convince me, that I needed to see if my expected ending may turn out to be fulfilled. Retired Chaplain Fred W. Hood


    5 out of 5 stars One of the best independent films in years!   October 24, 2006
    Jason Pelovello (Connecticut)
    3 out of 4 found this review helpful

    The Sisters, with its stellar cast & spectacular script, sizzles with sex appeal, rich dialogue, and an incredible story of the sometimes difficult bond we often share with family.
    The director of this film, Arthur Allan Seidelman, rounded himself up a star-studded bunch -- although I'm sure actors were just begging to wrap their heads around the dynamic script by Richard Alfieri.
    I just can't imagine any director or any script having the capability of gathering such a cast -- and this is an independent film, so they surely weren't working for the money.
    Fans of Will & Grace will be thrilled to see Eric McCormack's complete 180' -- I've never seen him like this before. Tony Goldwyn oozes masculine sex appeal while Maria Bello lights up the screen with her golden locks and fixating stares. She's pure beauty.
    The Sisters was definitely one of the best independent film of the past few years.



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