sisters and brothers - a film review

  Sisters and Brothers  - a film by Carl Bessau. Starring Cory Monteith, Amanda Crew, Dustin Mulligan and Camille Sullivan.
     
       The Metro Vancouver rain-soaked landscape  may just  spawn dysfunctional families. After all, Douglas Coupland, I think, wrote a book called 'All Families Are Dysfunctional'. Now along comes director Carl Bessau with his third film on dysfunctional and angry twosomes.
      In  'Sisters and Brothers' three-and-a-half twosomes slug it out on screen or just put angry vibes out there. Nikki played by Amanda Crew is an actor who hopes to be a star. While her half sister, played by Camille Sullivan, just came out of rehab to stay with Nikki. What do you expect? After all, this is Vancouver, the drug-plaged city by the sea.
 
     Justin played by Cory Monteith is the big star in L.A. His brother Rusty played by Dustin Mulligan
goes nowhere trying to help poor black people somewhere. Then there's Louise played by Gabrielle Miller who tries to help her schizophrenic brother played by Ben Ratner simply survive. Jay Brazeau plays an aging flake, who Jerry thinks may be or not be a lawyer. In fact, he isn't.
     Last but not least a calm, non-abusive Gabrielle Rose plays a single, middle-aged mother. Her young daughter just abuses her mom every chance she gets. Things get worse when Rose's other forgotten daughter, played by Leena Munro shows up from India.
    In interviews, or false ones, the main characters explain themselves or their siblings. There's comic style pictures too that link one episode to anothetr.
     "I f-----d that guy," Magge tells Nikki as they see the chunky balding sleaze, played by Tom Scholte, on t.v. And they both giggle. For  Scholte tries to lue Nikki to a supposed starring role in Los Angeles. But the journey ends with Nikki throwing Scholte out of her car, leaving him to hitchhike alone to Hollywood.. In the end, love or at least co-existence, wins the day.
     So is 'Sisters and Brothers' worth coughing up $12.50 to see. I think so. But only if you're prepared for nearly 90 minutes of anger and lots of Vancouver's rain-drenched scenery in the background.