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Perfect Sisters

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Canada · 2014
1h 40m
Director Stanley M. Brooks
Starring Abigail Breslin, Georgie Henley, Mira Sorvino, Jeffrey Ballard
Genre Thriller, Drama, Crime

Tired of their mother's alcoholism and a string of her abusive boyfriends, two sisters plot to kill her.

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Village Voice by

Stanley M. Brooks's directorial debut's attempt to make sense of what happened falters by laboring to tick every item off the timeline checklist instead of focusing on who these Bathtub Girls were underneath the dysfunction.

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Variety by Dennis Harvey

Stan Brooks’ first directorial feature provides scant psychological depth, drawing its characters and staging their incidents in crude fashion, despite superficial production gloss.

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The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck

The film is elevated by the quality of the performances, with Breslin and Henley movingly affecting as the closely bound sisters and Sorvino convincingly conveying her character’s inability to function.

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The Dissolve by Jordan Hoffman

Perfect Sisters may stand accused of being rife with tone-deaf stylistic choices, but the more positive spin is to call it a marginal film elevated, however inadvertently, by the strange specificity of its scenes.

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Time Out by Joshua Rothkopf

Perfect Sisters, which takes a dark, matricidal turn (inspired by an actual Toronto case), was never going to be a new "Heavenly Creatures." But give credit to director Stan Brooks for allowing his two former child stars some real meat to sink their teenage chops into.

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Los Angeles Times by Sheri Linden

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.

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