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He:
Wanna come to my place and listen to some marching band
music?
She:
What're you nuts?
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The
Other Sister is the story of a rich Republican
family, the Tates, who have three daughters and one
of them, Carla, is mentally retarded.
The
movie opens with 24-year-old Carla Tate (Juliette "
I'm switching agents as we speak" Lewis) returning
home from the "special" boarding school her
mother Elizabeth (Diane "Still a looker" Keaton)
sent her to for 10 years.
Mommie
Dearest wants to control Carla and mold her into a little
Martha Stewart, but Carla wants no part of it. Carla
wants to get her own apartment, go to vocational school
and have sex (not at the vocational school per
se).
An
aside- wait till you get a load of Keaton’s clothes—whoever
designed them, was the real retahded person.
After
many fights with her parents, Carla gets her way and
goes to school where she meets, Danny (Giovanni "Kissy
lips" Ribisi) who is also mentally challenged.
Keep in mind, this is a Gary Marshall movie, so nothing
is too close to reality. Remember, he created Happy
Days and Laverne and Shirley. His reality
can be a tad distorted and sappy at best. His last two
movies really jumped into the barf bag; Dear God
and the hideous S&M comedy Exit to Eden (Rosie
O’Donnell in dominatrix clothes! What kind of thinking
is this?) It's weird cause I still adore Marshall...
Anyhoodlum,
Carla and Danny are the most well behaved mentally retarded
people you’ll ever meet. God forbid, they should
offend anyone or make the audience uncomfortable. I've
got family members who act weirder than them! Me included!
They don’t even use the "R" word in the
whole movie. God forbid, it’s too realistic.
(gasp!)
The
one really annoying thing about Danny though, is the
fact that he LOVES marching band music. He’s always
playing it. Meanwhile Carla loves Billie Holiday. Men!
Whether they’re supposedly "normal" or
not, there’s just no accounting for their taste.
During
their courtship, Danny and Carla "do it" for
the first time on Thanksgiving Day. Then at a big hoity
toity Christmas soiree with Carla’s parents, Danny
gets drunk, grabs a microphone and tells everyone what
they did. (Guys just can’t keep it zipped—flies
or lips.) Big fight. Danny and Carla break up—for
a while. Afterwards, in a scene reminiscent of The
Graduate, Danny gets Carla back. You gotta see
it to believe it. Or not believe it.
The
Other Sister could have been good, but the film’s
sugary veneer makes it just another cranked out Hollywood
movie designed to please everyone and make money. It
is doing neither...Ironic huh?
Juliette
Lewis and Giovanni Ribisispaghetti did their best with
poo-poo. It was only due to an admoration for them I
stayed the whole annoying time wondering if anyone at
the studio test screened this- for folks other than
employees!
Snack
recommendation: Anything sugar coated.
Starring:
Juliette Lewis, Giovanni Ribisi, Diane Keaton
Directed
by: Gary Marshall
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