Goth girl Colleen is about to take her vows when she learns her brother has returned home.
Upon her arrival, she finds finds her room exactly as she left it – painted black and covered with goth/metal posters. Her family reunion is both happy and awkward – her brother has gone hermit and is staying in the family guesthouse.
Little Sister will open in New York on October 14th and Los Angeles on October 28th with additional cities to follow. The trailer follows the jump.
Forager Films presents
LI T T L E SI S T E R
Written and Directed by Zach Clark
“An eccentric, earnest, blackly comic family screwball. Clark is one of the most profoundly empathetic filmmakers to ever point his camera at the delinquent and underserved. Equal parts heartfelt and volatile.”
– Calum Marsh, THE VILLAGE VOICE
“Suggests that some kind of reconciliation might be possible in this deeply divided country, in a way that is funny [and] disarmingly sincere.”
– A.O. Scott, THE NEW YORK TIMES
“Sweetly funky and improbably pure-hearted. Sheedy scorchingly plays Joan; She’s frightening to watch, acridly funny in equal measure.”
– Guy Lodge, VARIETY
NYC Press Screening
Tuesday, October 4th
4:30pm
The Metrograph
7 Ludlow Street
Synopsis:
October, 2008. Young nun Colleen (Addison Timlin) is avoiding all contact from her family, until an email from her mother announces, “Your brother is home.” On returning to her childhood home in Asheville, NC, she finds her old room exactly how she left it: painted black and covered in goth/metal posters. Her parents (Ally Sheedy and Peter Hedges) are happy enough to see her, but unease and awkwardness abounds. Her brother (Keith Poulson) is living as a recluse in the guesthouse since returning home from the Iraq war. During Colleen’s visit, tensions rise and fall with a little help from Halloween, pot cupcakes, and GWAR. Little Sister is a sad comedy about family – a schmaltz-free, pathos-drenched, feel good movie for the little goth girl inside us all.
TRT: 91 Minutes
Country: USA
Language: English
Writer/ Director: Zach Clark
Story by: Zach Clark and Melodie Sisk
Starring: Addison Timlin, Ally Sheedy, Keith Poulson, Barbara Crampton and Peter Hedges
“Little Sister” opens at The Metrograph in New York on October 14th and The Arena Cinema in Los Angeles on October 28th; additional cities to follow