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04/02/09
The Sisters (2006)
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Reviews Counted:26
Fresh:8
Rotten:18
Average Rating:4.5/10
Theatrical Release:Apr 14, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: Maria Bello follows up her startling turn in David Cronenberg's A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE by appearing in this low budget adaptation of an Anton Chekov play, originally named THE THREE SISTERS. Bello... [More]
Starring: Elizabeth Banks, Maria Bello, Mary Stuart Masterson, Erika Christensen
Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman
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Reviews for The Sisters
an aggressively frustrating and ultimately nonsensical waste of time and talent.
04/13/06
It's a tedious experience of otherwise promising material and covetous cast.
05/06/06
A pompous, overwrought and itchingly claustrophobic psychodrama.
04/13/06
Top Critic[An] overcooked reinterpretation of Chekhov’s The Three Sisters.
04/13/06
Ham-fisted, maddeningly overwritten, and about as subtle as a jackhammer.
04/09/06
Overwrought psychodrama revolving around the predictable warps and obsessions of three adult siblings.
05/12/06
The movie looks horrible. On the few occasions that the action moves outside the chamber room, it's as if the filmmakers were venturing forth on the planet Mars.
04/14/06
Richard Alfieri adapted his Chekhov-inspired stage play for this movie, but the outpouring of suppressed memories and emotions still seem to belong to the more personal realm of theater.
04/14/06
Top Critic[Anton Chekhov's The Three Sisters'] egacy of stifled dreams and inter-familial anxieties are as relevant as ever. Updating it, however, should involve more than adding incest, lesbianism and the uncontrolled venting of spleen.
04/14/06
Top CriticLifeless and irredeemably sour.
04/13/06
A pretentious, stagy and over-the-top update of Chekov's The Three Sisters.
04/14/06
Top CriticBello is phenomenally good as the embittered Marcia, while Stuart and Christensen do their best with their less complex roles, but they're all undermined by Alfieri's shrill, mannered dialogue and cliched backstories.
04/14/06
What's left is a series of fraught confrontations that are more shrill than insightful or wrenching.
04/11/06
Instead of anti-melodrama laced with surprising moments of comedy, which Chekhov managed, The Sisters settles for bloodless melodrama.
05/18/06
Top CriticIt's a bit of an oversimplification but still a rule no writer should forget: Insufferable characters make for an insufferable play or movie.
04/14/06
What we can guess, watching the film, is that the same players would make a good job of Three Sisters but are undermined by the faculty club, which works like a hotel lobby. There's no way to sustain dramatic momentum here.
05/19/06
Top CriticAt the very least, Chekhov's basic premise turns the burners up enough to keep the action lively, which may explain why so many recognizable names were drawn to such a marginal production.
04/13/06
Anyone looking for the playwright's undeniable insight into the female psyche is unlikely to find any such specimen here.
05/12/06
Top CriticThis is one heck of an unhappy family.
04/13/06
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