Perfect Sisters

Perfect Sisters
Directed by Stanley M. Brooks
Produced by Juliette Hagopian
Damian Ganczewski
Screenplay by Fab Filippo
Adam Till
Based on The Class Project: How to Kill a Mother 
by Bob Mitchell
Starring Abigail Breslin
Georgie Henley
Mira Sorvino
Music by Carmen Rizzo
Cinematography Stéphanie Weber Biron
Edited by Robin Katz
Production
company
Julijette
Distributed by Gravitas Ventures
Release dates
 April 11, 2014[1]
Running time
 98 minutes[2]
Country Canada
Language English

Perfect Sisters is a 2014 Canadian crime drama film directed by Stanley M. Brooks. The film stars Abigail Breslin and Georgie Henley. The film was released on April 11, 2014. The film was based on the novel The Class Project: How to Kill a Mother, which itself was based on the real-life murder of Linda Andersen.

Plot

On January 18, 2003, police, alerted by a frantic 911 call from a distraught pair of teenage girls, arrived at the girls' Toronto area town house to find their mother dead. It appeared the 44-year-old alcoholic, having slipped into a booze-and-pill stupor, drowned in her own bathwater. The death was ruled accidental by the authorities. In the months that followed, however, police were alerted to rumors and reports that the teenagers had been gossiping to friends about the accident. Police began piecing together rumors that suggested the teens might have had a hand in their mother's death. In fact, rather than an accident, the story that emerged portrayed the two teens as cold-blooded, premeditated killers.

Cast

Controversy

The film was scrutinized by the Toronto community for portraying the teenage murderers through a far too sympathetic lens.[3][4][5] Author and journalist Bob Mitchel states "I don't think the movie dealt with how cold-blooded and calculating they were" in an interview about the theater adaptation of his book.[6]

Reception

The film received generally mixed reviews with a 30% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and a 44% rating on Metacritic based on 8 reviews.

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