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An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

The Other Sister (1999): Dir: Garry Marshall / Cast: Juliette Lewis, Giovanni Ribisi, Diane Keaton, Tom Skerritt, Hector Elizondo: Misguided comedy about the struggles and issues facing the mentally handicapped. Juliette Lewis plays the other sister and the title seems to suggest her lack of recognition and her eagerness to become more than she is. She wishes to free herself from her mother's apron string and seek opportunities in life, choices and romances. She arrives home from a special school to the news that her sister is engaged and her other sister is gay. She enrols in a computer course and meets a mentally challenged male who works at a bakery. Fine setup is reduced to predictable elements and a dumb financial explanation in the conclusion. It is disturbing watching these two experiment with sex. Directed by Garry Marshall who often deals with films where outsiders aim to fit in. He previously made Pretty Woman and Dear God. Convincing performances by Lewis and Giovanni Ribisi who pull through even when the material is uneasy. Tom Skerritt and Diane Keaton play her annoying parents in what isn't their best moment. Hector Elizondo plays the landlord and friend to the Ribisi character but the role is one note and flat. Arguments surface regarding handicaps and their level of freedom but viewers may be divided as to whether the execution is a success. Score: 6 / 10

Garry Marshall makes genuine cinema in 'The Other Sister', it's a romantically challenged film with love that works big time.A young mentally disabled woman named Carla Tate falls in love with A young man named Daniel McMahon, also slightly mentally disabled. Will they live happily happy ever after? 'The Other Sister' is a simple story, that has complicated characters. The film was not a box office hit and was critically panned, and was un-mentioned in 1999. However, 'The Other Sister' carries a 6.6 rating at IMDb today, with much favorable reviews. I loved the film, it's a fascinating love-story!Marshall's direction is neat, Music by Kyle Vincent is fantastic. In the acting department, It's a shame to know that Juliette Lewis was nominated for a Razzie for her earnest performance in here. Lewis is a terrific actress! Giovanni Ribisi steals the show with a excellent performance. Diane Keaton is efficient. Tom Skerritt is likable.On the whole, 'The Other Sister' is a gem. Watch this film, don't avoid it due to some Roger Ebert!

Whatever wisdom I have tells me to learn from the tribulations of others and to accept that, for the most part, nothing that's happened to me can compare with the worst that nature can throw at my fellow man. I am fortunate to be healthy, to have a loving wife, and an almost normal middle schooler (who would accuse any kid in 8th grade of being normal?). My child has a full set of working brain cells and, even though I work with a number of cognitively delayed children in a high school, I don't know what it's like to try to raise a child who will never come up to the intellectual equal of the middle of the Bell Curve.With this in mind, I entered into the contract of watching Gary Marshall's The Other Sister, hoping that I'd learn something about mentally retarded children and their desire to be independent, to be considered self-actualized, to be free.What I got were fine performances by Juliette Lewis and Giovanni Ribisi, and just another story of the trials and tribulations of the UMC. The second I saw the poshness of the Tate's digs, my defensive distrust of what I was seeing kicked into high gear.Why couldn't Gary Marshall have told the story of a middle class family, struggling with money the way their daughter struggles with the subtleties, the nuances of human intellect? Tom Skerritt would have been a high school math teacher and Diane Keaton would have been something other than Diane Keaton. The story would have been shot in Pocatello, Idaho instead of San Francisco. There would have been no Poppy Montgomery (looking luscious as usual) and no lesbian subplot to give the whole thing a patina of Family Stone gracious living. It would be smelly work shirts and dirty fingernails, and trying to get Carla a place to live within the family budget. Now that would have been a movie!

I happen to have a daughter pretty much like Carla. She's been through a huge lot of difficulties all her life, and she never gave up. She's all joy, and love, and innocence, and purity, and strength, and wisdom, pretty much like the character. She's 17 now, next year she'll be graduating from high school at a "regular" school, she's just started a relationship with a boy, and she's so happy... You can imagine how this movie, and especially Juliette's amazing performance, moved me to the core. I watched it last night, and I've been waiting all day for the moment to be able to watch it again. It's a movie I'll treasure, and I sure hope they make a sequel.