Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Elizabeth BanksNancy Pecket
- Maria BelloMarcia Prior Glass
- Erika ChristensenIrene Prior
- Steven CulpDr. Harry Glass
- Tony GoldwynVincent Antonelli
- Mary Stuart MastersonOlga Prior
- Eric McCormackGary Sokol
- Alessandro NivolaAndrew Prior
- Chris O'DonnellDavid Turzin
- Rip TornDr. Chebrin
Recommendations
- 63
TV Guide Magazine
Bello is phenomenally good as the embittered Marcia, while Stuart and Christensen do their best with their less complex roles, but they're all undermined by Alfieri's shrill, mannered dialogue and cliched backstories that wouldn't be out of place in a dysfunction-family-of-the-week movie. - 50
The A.V. Club
The Sisters is still somewhat compelling thanks to Bello, whose unguarded, provocative work continually resuscitates this corpse of a melodrama whenever it lays fallow. - 50
L.A. Weekly
The Sisters may be worth a look, however, for the work of the magnificent Bello and Tony Goldwyn, who's never been better than as the married man with whom Marcia has an affair. Their final clench is pure, guilty-pleasure melodrama, which means it's not the least bit Chekhovian. - 50
New York Daily News
Family gatherings in the movies are shorthand for brutal trips down mine-strewn memory lanes. The Sisters doesn't disappoint in that regard. - 40
Variety
Even a magnificently inspired Maria Bello proves insufficiently daring to save Richard Alfieri and Arthur Allan Seidelman's Chekhov-based chamber piece Sisters from pretentious psychodrama. - 40
The New York Times
Insufferable characters make for an insufferable play or movie. The Sisters, a grueling family feud conceived by Richard Alfieri, proves the point. - 40
Los Angeles Times
A pompous, overwrought and itchingly claustrophobic psychodrama. - 38
New York Post
Pretentious, stagy and over-the-top update of Chekov's "The Three Sisters."