Synopsis
Four sisters who disagree about everything... except what matters most. Family.
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Cast
- Cloris LeachmanDolly Amati
- Mercedes RuehlGrace
- Dinah ManoffDenise
- Sean YoungChristine
- Lily KnightDolores
- Lee GrantAunt Spendora
- Edith FieldsAunt Loretta
- Edith FieldsCarla
- Sam McMurrayBrian
- Matt WinstonJohnny Barlotta
Recommendations
- 67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Plays like a series of well-done but disconnected acting-class sketches, filled with a huge cast of first-rate actors whose careers have all gone into decline. - 50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Rather like listening to Vladimir Horowitz play "Chopsticks." - 50
Miami Herald
Annie DeSalvo, a first-time director and screenwriter, can't escape the made-for-TV feel but does manage to give her cast, mostly once-big names fallen from grace and popularity, flashes of humanity between lessons about various saints and sermons disguised as dialogue. - 40
TV Guide Magazine
Smacks of a certain kind of TV movie filled with pious uplift, even as it makes token concessions to contemporary lifestyles. - 38
Chicago Tribune
All the obligatory plot elements are there. Love and loss, anger and forgiveness, illness and death. But they never flow together to make a coherent story. Instead, they just pop up whenever the script is in trouble. Which is all the time. - 38
New York Daily News
Only a memorably commanding Ruehl transcends the limitations of her two-dimensional character. - 25
San Francisco Chronicle
We all know how actors overact when they play Italians, and we all know how actors overact when they play brain-damaged characters, so just imagine Knight's performance as a brain-damaged Italian American. - 25
Chicago Sun-Times
The movie should be praying to St. Jude, patron saint of lost causes. Maybe he could perform a miracle and turn this into a cable offering, so no one has to buy a ticket to see it.