Sisters (Criterion Collection) R
They were joined at birth by the devil and the evil never left them!
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DVD Details
- Audio: English (Dolby Digital Mono)
- Subtitles: English
- 1.85:1 Widescreen Presentation
- Director Brian De Palma's 1973 Village Voice essay Murder By Moog: Scoring The Chill, On Working With Composer Bernard Herrmann (Psycho, Citizen Kane)
- 1973 Print Interview With De Palma On The Making Of Sisters Rare Study Of Siamese Twins In Soviet, the 1966 Life Magazine Article That Inspired De Palma
- Excerpts From The Original Press Book, Including Ads And Exploitation
- Production, Publicity, And Behind-The-Scenes Stills
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 32 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 3, 2000
- Originally Released: 1973
- Label: Criterion
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Margot Kidder & Jennifer Salt | |
Performer: | Dolph Sweet, Barnard Hughes, Lisle Wilson, Charles Durning & William Finley | |
Directed by | Brian De Palma | |
Edited by | Paul Hirsch | |
Screenwriting by | Louisa Rose | |
Composition by | Bernard Herrmann | |
Cinematography by | Gregory Sandor | |
Art Direction by | Gary Weist | |
Produced by | Edward R. Pressman |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3.5/5 --
It may not be perfect, but what sibling relationship ever is?!
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Fresh Fiction
Rating: 1/5 --
It's so disappointing that the usually hilarious Fey and Poehler have indulged themselves with this paper-thin plot...
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One Room With A View
Rating: 3/5 --
It's a bit like Animal House for girls, but not as freewheeling.
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Sydney Morning Herald
Rating: 8.5/10 --
Sisters is such a funny movie, I honestly began to question if I was somehow mixing up my affection for Fey and Poehler with cinematic success.
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Cinematic Essential
Rating: 4/10 --
Sisters just feels like they jumped in front of a camera without a plan and rehashed that terrible brand of humor where they rely on the shock value of four-letter words and general crudeness instead of crafting real, clever punch lines.
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Way Too Indie
Rating: 2.5/5 --
It can be fun and enjoyable, but the spark doesn't stay alive for very long before all the shenanigans get to be somewhat repetitive and underwhelming.
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Movies with Mae
Is Sisters a good movie? No. No, it is not. Its plot manages to be both jarring (so many twists!) and predictable; its supporting characters are thin; it makes gleeful use of tired stereotypes.
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The Atlantic
Description by OLDIES.com:
Margot Kidder is Danielle, a beautiful model separated from her Siamese twin, Dominique. When a hotshot reporter (Jennifer Salt) suspects Dominique of a brutal murder, she becomes dangerously ensnared in the sisters' insidious sibling bond. A scary and stylish paean to female destructiveness, De Palma's first foray into horror voyeurism is a stunning amalgam of split-screen effects, bloody birthday cakes, and a chilling score by frequent Hitchcock collaborator Bernard Herrmann. Criterion is proud to present Sisters in a new Special Edition.
Product Description:
Director Brian De Palma made a name for himself with this twisty shocker starring a pre-SUPERMAN Margot Kidder as the mysterious Danielle. A French-Canadian model, Danielle may be covering up a murder to protect her recently separated homicidal Siamese twin--or maybe not. Plucky female reporter Grace Collier (Jennifer Salt) witnessed the killing from her apartment window but can't convince some clueless cops to investigate, so she hires a private detective (Charles Durning) to help her solve the case. Eventually she winds up at a mysterious sanitarium in the clutches of Danielle's creepy psychiatrist husband, Emil (William Finley), and begins to unravel the shocking truth.
Scary, funny, clever, and firmly rooted in a Hitchcockian universe, SISTERS set the tone for many of De Palma's future works, including DRESSED TO KILL and RAISING CAIN. Bernard Herrmann's score even recalls his work on PSYCHO--only this time he's spruced things up with bizarre electronic effects. However, not all of De Palma's work pays debt to the master of suspense. An innovative use of split-screen techniques to heighten the suspense is distinctly his own, as is a memorably twisted black-and-white hallucination sequence.
Scary, funny, clever, and firmly rooted in a Hitchcockian universe, SISTERS set the tone for many of De Palma's future works, including DRESSED TO KILL and RAISING CAIN. Bernard Herrmann's score even recalls his work on PSYCHO--only this time he's spruced things up with bizarre electronic effects. However, not all of De Palma's work pays debt to the master of suspense. An innovative use of split-screen techniques to heighten the suspense is distinctly his own, as is a memorably twisted black-and-white hallucination sequence.
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