Friday, April 11, 2014

Perfect Sister




NYTimes

Teenagers, Fed Up, Hatch a Deadly Plan

‘Perfect Sisters’ Is Based on a Matricide Case

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Georgie Henley and Abigail Breslin in "Perfect Sisters." Credit Gravitas Ventures

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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