Synopsis
After returning to her childhood home, young nun Colleen finds her old room exactly how she left it: painted black and covered in goth and metal posters. Her parents are happy enough to see her, but her brother is living as a recluse in the guesthouse since returning home from the Iraq war.
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Cast
- Addison TimlinColleen Lunsford
- Ally SheedyJoani Lunsford
- Keith PoulsonJacob Lunsford
- Peter HedgesBill Lunsford
- Barbara CramptonThe Reverend Mother
- Alex KarpovskyDeli Guy
- Kristin SlaysmanTricia
- Rhonda HansomeHomeless Woman
- Amber Reauchean WilliamsDebbie
- Gene SantarelliShut-In
Recommendations
- 100
The New Yorker
With its blend of terrifyingly intense family bonds and the howling furies of the world outside, this is a great American political film. - 80
The New York Times
A strange, spiky movie that refuses to beg for our affection, Little Sister, the fifth feature from Zach Clark, molds the classic homecoming drama into a quirky reconciliation between faith and family. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
Flirting with sitcommy high jinks, Clark instead gives us a bittersweet cocktail of soul-weary defeat and unassuming vigor. - 80
Variety
Clark’s fifth feature is marked by his characteristic brand of distorted realism, though a classically redemptive arc — with even a hint of spiked sentimentality — sounds a new note in his oeuvre. - 75
The Film Stage
The humor enhances this drive by lightening the weightiness of the Lunsfords’ struggle as well as endearing them as a relatable group not so different from our own families regardless of our personal issues possibly not matching their immense tragedy. - 75
The A.V. Club
A slight, sweetly cynical indie dramedy about family and belonging and the ways we cope with life’s disappointments. - 75
Rolling Stone
Clark is a talent to watch. He's made a transfixing film about a family that looks touchingly and unnervingly like yours and mine. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
Timlin and Paulson create a believable rapport as the central siblings, though it’s Sheedy’s chemistry with the camera (and her character) that creates the film’s most dramatically satisfying moments.
