Little Sister
Young nun Colleen (Addison Timlin) finally visits her childhood home after the return of her brother from Iraq. During her visit, tensions rise and fall with a little help from Halloween, pot cupcakes, and GWAR.
10 August 1983, Fresno, California, USA
27 December 1958, Levittown, Long Island, New York, USA
13 June 1962, New York City, New York, USA
May 10, 1986 in Ketchikan, Alaska, USA
March 20, 2017
Clark closely observes all these character dynamics with an empathetic eye, a skewed sense of humor, and a freewheeling inventiveness that keeps things refreshingly off-balance without losing its emotional heart.
October 26, 2016
Clark's film uses its 2008 setting as a backdrop for a funny, wistful little comedy-drama about family members learning to overcome themselves and reconnect with each other. Can we reconcile with those who know us only too well? Yes, we can.
October 15, 2016
Zach Clark goes down dark-comic alleys, but he's made a transfixing film about a dysfunctional family that looks touchingly and unnervingly like yours and mine.
October 14, 2016
Little Sister delivers a charming black sheep tale rich with tenderness, raw with pain, and spiked with humor.
October 13, 2016
Flirting with sitcommy high jinks, Clark instead gives us a bittersweet cocktail of soul-weary defeat and unassuming vigor.
October 27, 2016
[A] fine, darkly poignant tale of a conflicted young nun-in-training facing her own version of "hope and change."
October 13, 2016
A strange, spiky movie that refuses to beg for our affection, "Little Sister," the fifth feature from Zach Clark, molds the classic homecoming drama into a quirky reconciliation between faith and family.
October 14, 2016
A quiet and gentle film, emotional but not manipulatively sentimental, sad but not nihilistic, Marilyn Manson epigram and Goth-font chapter markers notwithstanding.
October 28, 2016
[Little Sister] contains multitudes about religious investigation and personal growth without ever underlining the ideas too much, but Clark injects enough genuine warmth and grace notes to make the journey feel as fleet as possible.
October 14, 2016
This fetching little oddball of a movie sneaks its way into your affection by virtue of its sheer originality and keen human observation.
October 28, 2016
I feel this movie. And I highly doubt I'm alone in this.
October 19, 2016
Zach Clark [lets] his idiosyncratic characters carry the film in a way many filmmakers wouldn't dare.
