The Other Sister
Though mentally challenged Carla has many challenges, her biggest is to prove her independence to a more-than-slightly over protective mother to attend college and pursue a romance with Danny, a young man with a similar disability.
4 February 1928, Quincy, Illinois, USA
18 June 1947, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1 December 1971, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
5 April 1966, Oxnard, California, USA
21 November 1941, London, England, UK
6 November 1962, Burbank, California, USA
January 29, 2005
Giovanni Ribisi could be his generation's Dustin Hoffman... he could also be his generation's Richard Benjamin...
January 01, 2000
The film pushes the outer limits of just how long anyone with a normal I.Q. can watch what should be a TV sitcom.
January 01, 2000
Everything is reduced to a transparent formula. And everyone plays their schematic part.
January 01, 2000
A torturous endurance test!
January 01, 2000
The charming innocence in this unusual take on first love and first heartbreak gives THE OTHER SISTER its special quality.
January 01, 2000
A neatly wrapped made-for-TV homily!
January 01, 2000
Mostly works thanks to lead performances.
January 01, 2000
Has neither the imagination nor the reach of Forrest Gump.
February 08, 2003
For what is supposed to be a poignant love story, The Other Sister fails to show much spark.
January 01, 2000
Warm-hearted but ultimately soft!
January 01, 2000
Never manages more than a glib, TV movie-of- the-week glance at their lives.
January 01, 2000
Grotesquely sentimental, shamelessly manipulative and fundamentally bad.
