NYTimes
Teenagers, Fed Up, Hatch a Deadly Plan
‘Perfect Sisters’ Is Based on a Matricide Case
Several times, “Perfect Sisters”
shifts its tone so jarringly that you’re left scratching your head. But
eventually you realize that Stan Brooks, the director, might be making a
point with the incongruity. If so, kudos to him for trying something
different in a movie that otherwise could have seemed like an extended
episode of any of the scheming-teenager shows that are all over
television.
The film, based on a Canadian case, gives us Sandra (Abigail Breslin)
and Beth (Georgie Henley), teenage sisters whose neglectful mother
(Mira Sorvino) drinks too much and brings home abusive boyfriends.
Adults whom they turn to for help don’t intervene, so the sisters slowly
convince themselves that the best way to end their living nightmare is
to kill Mom.
Once
in a while, as this serious drama is percolating along, Mr. Brooks
detours into comedy, as with a series of vignettes in which the girls
fantasize about possible methods of matricide. It’s odd at first, but,
by the film’s end, it feels fitting somehow, a signal that these
teenagers don’t really understand the consequences of their actions. Ms.
Breslin and especially Ms. Henley are quite good, elevating a film that
seems like an oft-told tale.
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