Sister Cities (2016)

Load of rubbish!!

Fantastic!

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

The story is riveting and the acting flawless. I loved this movie. And I saw a screening on the same weekend as I saw 2 big box-office films. This one way outshone the others in every way. The story was told with flashbacks in a way that revealed more and more of the linear story as the film progressed. The ensemble acting made you feel you were there with these sisters. And the scenes between each sister and mother deepened our understanding of each character. The screenwriter is not only a wonderful scriptwriter, but also a novelist and we get to know these characters in a way that is usually possible only in novels. There is humor, sometimes dark, but always real that comes from the story, never thrown in merely to break the tension.

Fine acting but of course a very morbid, depressing film where the writer-daughter more than assists in her mother's suicide, the latter a victim suffering from ALS.While the topic of being allowed to end it when you're terminally ill has become quite controversial today.Each one of the daughters is a unique group of individuals with varying lives and the one who is an attorney vying for a judgeship is all too ready to condemn what her sister has done.Alfred Molina briefly appears as the father of Austin, the daughter who complied with the wishes of the mother. Jackie Weaver, as the dying mother, is excellent as the woman trapped in a body that is rapidly failing.

An stunning film that will pull at your heartstrings as it touches upon the bond of four sisters and the quality of life of their mother who was living with a debilitating disease before she died.The acting is stellar and the script draws you right in. Each sister has her own, very unique personality, but they rally together in the end for their mother's sake. They realized that that's what she would have wanted. I was in tears and deeply moved by the end of the movie. Definitely be prepared with tissues.It's a beautiful indie film that everyone should feast their heart and eyes on!

Despite it's silly title, this is a powerful movie full of raw, intense characters. This is an emotional story of four estranged sisters coming together after their mother's death. These woman are incredibly different from each other, making them very memorable. Austin, the one who lived with her mother and was her caretaker when she got sick, Carolina, a hard-edged attorney, Dallas, a tightly-wound woman reeling from the effects of her upcoming divorce, and Baltimore, a young, free- spirited bohemian type. The sisters are absent for most of their mother's adult life, with the exception of Austin, yet feel compelled to judge and place blame as if they had been there all along. However, these siblings do love each other, and must try to overcome their obstacles while uncovering the mystery that shrouds their mother's death. I was not expecting much from this movie, given it's rather vanilla title - I was wrong.