Little Sister: A Memoir by Patricia Walsh Chadwick
- mjjengojan8179
- Aug 19, 2023
- 3 min read
The film's title has a double meaning. Colleen Lunsford (Addison Timlin) is the "little sister" to an older brother, and also a novitiate waiting to take her final vows to become a nun. Living in a convent in Brooklyn, she is devoted to her faith, and to the "good works" aspect of it, soup kitchens, helping the elderly. She is a shy young woman, dressed in cardigans and denim skirts, so quiet that she barely registers as a presence. When her mother sends an email filled with exclamation points summoning her home, Colleen asks the Mother Superior (scream queen Barbara Crampton, a great casting choice!) if she can borrow her car for a short trip home. Colleen's older brother Jacob (Keith Poulson) returned home from a tour in Iraq with his face burnt beyond recognition. He now lives as a recluse, refusing to leave his room. He and Colleen were once close. Maybe Colleen can help.
Little Sister
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Colleen reunites with her high school friend Emily (Molly Plunk), who is now the kind of animal activist too "out there" for even PETA. Colleen has her first beer. She vomits after having two. She jokes to Emily that she has a "lifetime membership V-card." Meanwhile, Mother Superior - with her blunt haircut and blue power suits - keeps calling, wondering when Colleen is planning on returning. "Little Sister" is so refreshingly accurate in its portrayal of what it's like between close siblings, the short-hand, inside jokes, awkward affection. If you only judged from films, you'd think that adult siblings never got along with each other. It's an extremely specific kind of dynamic, and Zach Clark understands it so well, as do Paulson and Timlin, who are beautifully believable as brother and sister. Their relationship is the heart of the film.
i feel so WARM... my heart is so FULL... ive been smiling for the past 15 minutes and im still smiling now!!!!!!! but i was so sad when the credits started rolling i could have watched these sisters for so much longer
Having a brother and three sisters, this film makes me feel things and happy for having these beautiful siblings. We may fight sometimes, but I know every one of them will be there when I need them. So, watching these four women and how they are with one another makes me want to protect them at all costs.
The freshman sits in psychology class, hidden in the back row as always, relieved that no one knows who she is. She thinks about her big sister, also a psych major, who aced the last exam of her life in this building hours before she was abducted.
But every day when Haley rides the A bus to class, the distractions disappear. She stares out the window and sees Foster Quad, where Hannah lived as a freshman. She sees the limestone buildings where she sat in class and dreamed about her future. Everything her sister once experienced rushes past.
Hannah was exuberant, loud and theatrical. Haley was reserved, cautious, shy. Hannah often directed the two of them in home movies, and she usually casted her little sister in the supporting role and herself as the star. Hannah would invent songs on the piano and get Haley to sing along. Once, Haley asked if she could make up her own song. 2ff7e9595c
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