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A strong sisterhood in “Perfect Sisters”
Review and photo of Georgie Henley and Stanley M. Brooks by Jenny Alvarez
A pair of abused and neglected teenage girls almost get away with murder in Perfect Sisters, a riveting true-crime thriller based on the notorious “Bathtub Girls” case. Sisters Sandra and Beth (Abigail Breslin and Georgie Henley) early in life that they had no one to depend on but each other. But when their addict mother Linda (Mira Sorvinolearned) makes plans to move the girls in with her lecherous and abusive lover, the girls’ situation becomes unbearable. Perfect Sisters is a harrowing and heartbreaking look at the teen subculture that nurtured the girls’ murderous fantasies and covered up for them after they committed an unthinkable crime in an effort to create a normal life for themselves.
The tone and lighting changes mirror the sisters’ relationship with their mother. When Linda seems hopeful about the future, then the sisters are upbeat. Is a cheerful ambience, the colors are bright. After Linda begins dating Bowman, quits her job, and descends into alcoholic bouts, the sisters become depressed. This film is certainly unique and heart breaking engaging and some scenes are full of drama and desperation. Both girls are have fantasies and covered up for them after they committed an unthinkable crime in an effort to create a normal life for themselves and as a spectator this girls are victims of a cruel destiny full of abuse, violence outbursts, and insidious suggestion from their mother’s lover. The final plot for all the teens involved decide on – to drown Linda in a bathtub for four minutes after Beth drugs her for hours on pills and alcohol – is so fantastical that rich and popular Ashley can’t believe this isn’t a game of make-believe. Definitely, is a real story and show how it fits the plot, if tastefully done with wisdom, maturity, and understanding of a dramatic case of two young murders. In a relaxing interview Georgie Henley said to GalaTView: “I tried to do something full of color and emotions is going through my role so she had to face some struggling with her challenges in what kind of route to take immersion in her people that she supposes to love and huge with love and it was interesting and complex to play.”
Stanley M. Brooks: “I read the book and originally was making for TV and we kept doing address the written part and this story wasn’t for TV for the topics such as teen alcoholic, teen drugs, the language and kids don’t talk anymore each other so I kept that part of the story but as a Producer I have to make an interesting movie specially with their mother and lover totally violent and nobody ends as they have to end so to me the final was the greatest part when all had sympathy in each part of the characters.”
