Other Sister

Pros: enjoyable characters and story; funny and romantic
Cons: none for me

1999’s The Other Sister, directed and co-written by Garry Marshall, gives professional, jaded critics the desire to puke. They’ll squirm in their chairs while viewing the 128-minute, PG-13 movie as if they badly need to relieve themselves ...

Pros: This is a beautiful love story that radiates hope even beyond the main characters!
Cons: Not enough movies like this one!!!

Pros: none
Cons: insulting, condescending, ridiculous, overlong, grating, irritating, feckless, clueless

In its way The Other Sister is every bit a monument to perfection as Welles' Citizen Kane or Kurasawa's High and Low. It is consistently and unrepentantly terrible to the extent that, for one long vertiginous period during its...

Pros: Touching, At points I forgot I was watching a movie, Brilliant Acting
Cons: It is quite long so you need to set aside the adequate time to digest it

I was feeling numb to life, I felt like nothing could bring me out of the slump that I was in. I recalled that my good friend (and Hollywood Video employee) had vehemently recommended The Other Sister as an example of cinematic brilliance....

Pros: An entrancing, sometimes hard-edged fable of how a "challenged" daughter educated her family.
Cons: Some object to the upper class setting and a possible homage to THE GRADUATE.

Epinions and iMac work in mysterious ways! Yesterday THE OTHER SISTER (1998) suddenly appeared on my screen, caused presumably by a nervous finger on the modem. That accident reminded me the title had also popped into my mind last week, prompting me...

Pros: Tom Skerrit as a loving father
Cons: Portrays the retarded as bad stand-up comedians; repeatedly abandons its "serious" issues for cliches

There is a scene early in The Other Sister that demonstrates the kind of film it could have been. Carla Tate (Juliette Lewis), a slightly retarded young woman in her late teens, has just come home from a mental institution. Sitting at the dinner...

Pros: Good performances by the leads; a touching, if unconventional, romance
Cons: Two-dimensional supporting characters; hard to watch at times

I was looking for a lighthearted chick-flick to engage my fiancee and me for a Friday evening's viewing, and I snatched up The Other Sister almost at random. I didn't know anything about the film when I rented it. Had I known what it was, I...

Pros: Lewis & Keaton
Cons: ////

What a tremendous surprise I received when I started watching this movie. I had just read The Other Sister and was pleased to see it had been released as a movie. HA! What a joke on me. My "Other Sister" was a horror/suspense...

Pros: family oriented, mature audiences only
Cons: none

Juliette Lewis was wonderful in this playing a handicapped adult child that wants to get out on her own and be taken seriously and prove to her mom and dad that she can take care of herself, Tom Skerritt, and Diane Keaton, play her parents...

Pros: innocently and sweetly shows a different side of love
Cons: had to wait so long to purchase it....

I first saw this in the movies and was highly impressed. It was sweet and sensual and warm and witty and excellent and exciting! It's not often that you walk out of the movie theater feeling like you've been introduced to the "heart" of the...

Pros: Great casting
Cons: kind of weak story line, over-exaggeration of retarded people's features/gestures

I first saw this movie in the theater with my best friend (who also works with kids who have special needs), and thought, "eh, it was OK." Last night, my husband picked it off of the rental shelf and agreed to watch it. I fell in love and...

Pros: Touching, sweet, uplifting
Cons: None

This movie struck me as one of the most poignant and touching movies I've seen in a very long time. I don't generally care for Diane Keaton movies, and I didn't particularly care for her in this one either, but she played her part well (and was...

Pros: Great beleivable characters, nice story
Cons: none

____As a lover of action-packed movies where stuff is constantly getting blown up, I don't exactly watch a lot movies like this. I mean....it's a total chick flick. But I will tell you a secret if you promise not to laugh.....I liked it. Yes I think they...

Pros: The whole movie
Cons: nothing

It first learned about this movie last week. .I went over to my neighbors and he was watching it. So, I have already watched about ten minutes prior to this of this movie .I decided not to watch all of it .I wanted to watch all of it from...

Pros: Very engaging story
Cons: none

This movie should be required for all high school students since it brings a very different perspective of those who are developmentally challenged. This is simply not your usual boy-meets-girl story. This is a story that stays in your heart. It is...