LITTLE SISTER
Little Sister
Zach Clark, 2020
Catalog No.: FTF-213
Length: 91 minutes
October, 2008. Young nun Colleen (Addison Timlin) is avoiding all contact from her family, until an email from her mother (Ally Sheedy) announces, Your brother is home. On returning to her childhood home in Asheville, NC, she finds her old room exactly how she left it: painted black and covered in goth/metal posters. Her parents are happy enough to see her, but unease and awkwardness abounds. Her brother is living as a recluse in the guesthouse since returning home from the Iraq war. During Colleen's visit, tensions rise and fall with a little help from Halloween, pot cupcakes, and GWAR. Little Sister is a sad comedy about family, a schmaltz-free, pathos-drenched, feel-good movie for the little goth girl inside us all.
Written and Directed by Zach Clark
Produced by Zach Clark, Melodie Sisk, Chris Weber
Edited by Zach Clark
Cinematography by Daryl Pittman
Music by Fritz Myers
Cast: Addison Timlin, Ally Sheedy, Keith Poulson, Peter Hedges, Barbara Crampton, Kristin Slaysman, Rhonda Hansome, Sunita Mani, Tallie Medel and Eleanore Pienta
Festivals: SXSW Film Festival, Maryland Film Festival, BAMCinemafest, Oak Cliff Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Fantasia International Film Festival, Sidewalk Film Festival and more
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PRESS
"An Instant Classic."
-Richard Brody, The New Yorker
"Channels John Wanters and John Hughes."
-Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
“Little Sister handles volatile material — the effects of war, cultural and military, on young Americans — with a lighter touch. The movie suggests that some kind of reconciliation might be possible in this deeply divided country, in a way that is funny, disarmingly sincere and forgivably naïve.”
-AO Scott, New York Times, Critics Pick
"Addison Timlin and Ally Sheedy lead a pitch-perfect ensemble.”
-Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter
“Weird, winsome, and wonderful… so attuned to the pain of reckoning with the past that every detail feels remembered rather than invented.”
-David Ehrlich, Indiewire
"Profoundly empathetic. Equal parts heartfelt and volatile."
-Calum Marsh, The Village Voice
“Hilarious and heartbreaking…steadily mining truth and comedy from the depths of despair.”
-Jacob Knight, Birth.Movies.Death
“Emotional but not manipulatively sentimental, sad but not nihilistic. Radical yet thoughtful."
Sheila O’Malley, RogerEbert.com