Perfect Sisters
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| 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 |
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| Music by | Carmen Rizzo |
| Cinematography | Stéphanie Weber Biron |
| Edited by | Robin Katz |
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Julijette
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| Distributed by | Gravitas Ventures |
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Running time
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98 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
Perfect Sisters (released in the UK as Deadly Sisters) is a 2014 Canadian crime drama film directed by Stanley M. Brooks. It stars Abigail Breslin and Georgie Henley. The film was released on April 11, 2014, and 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.
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.
The film was scrutinized by the Toronto community for portraying the teenage murderers through a far too sympathetic lens. 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.
The film received generally mixed reviews with a 27% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and a 44% rating on Metacritic based on 8 reviews. Dennis Harvey of Variety criticized the film for being "ineffectual and cartoonish" and compared it unfavorably to the similarly-themed 1994 film Heavenly Creatures.
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