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Intelligent, observant entertainment designed for an adult audience.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
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The Sisters
Overview
Based on Anton Chekov's "The Three Sisters" about siblings living in a college town who struggle with the death of their father and try to reconcile relationships in their own lives.
Director and cast
- Arthur Allan Seidelman Director
- Elizabeth Banks as Nancy Pecket
- Maria Bello as Marcia Prior Glass
- Erika Christensen as Irene Prior
- Steven Culp as Dr. Harry Glass
- Tony Goldwyn as Vincent Antonelli
- Mary Stuart Masterson as Olga Prior
- Eric McCormack as Gary Sokol
- Alessandro Nivola as Andrew Prior
- Chris O'Donnell as David Turzin
- Rip Torn as Dr. Chebrin
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
29%
Tomatometer
Rotten
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.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
Instead of anti-melodrama laced with surprising moments of comedy, which Chekhov managed, The Sisters settles for bloodless melodrama.
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Rotten
Anyone looking for the playwright's undeniable insight into the female psyche is unlikely to find any such specimen here.
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press
Fresh
I liked the performances a lot.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
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