Some Girls [Sisters] **** (1988, Patrick Dempsey, Jennifer Connelly, Sheila Kelley, Lance Edwards, Lila Kedrova, Florinda Balkan, André Gregory) – Classic Movie Review 12,052

Director Michael Hoffman’s 1988 American coming-of-age comedy drama film Some Girls [Sisters] stars Patrick Dempsey, Jennifer Connelly, Sheila Kelley, Lance Edwards, Lila Kedrova, Florinda Balkan and André Gregory.

Patrick Dempsey (then fresh from The Woo Woo Kid) plays college kid Dempsey who arrives at the Quebec home of his girlfriend Gabi (Jennifer Connelly) for Christmas. She promptly tells his she doesn’t love him anymore, but he falls into bed with her two sisters Irenka (Sheila Kelley) and Simone (Ashley Greenfield), and in love with the whole dotty family.

Director Hoffman’s film could have been a boisterous sex romp, but is in fact a gentle, tender and wise comedy drama. The sisters’ snowbound Canadian gothic house and countryside look dazzlingly beautiful, the performances are sprightly and charming (Lila Kedrova and André Gregory hand in lovely turns as Granny and dad), and the quirky script weaves its way through tangled webs of emotions.

Robert Redford was executive producer.

Some Girls [Sisters] is directed by Michael Hoffman, runs 94 minutes, is made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, The Oxford Film Company and Wildwood Enterprises, is released by MGM/UA Communications, is written by Rupert Walters, shot by Ueli Steiger, is produced by Robert Redford, Andy Paterson and Mark Bentley, is scored by James Newton Howard, and is designed by Eugenio Zanetti.

The cast are Patrick Dempsey as Michael, Jennifer Connelly as Gabriella d’Arc, Sheila Kelley as Irenka d’Arc, Lance Edwards as Nick, Lila Kedrova as Granny, Florinda Bolkan as Mrs d’Arc, Andre Gregory as Mr d’Arc, Ashley Greenfield as Simone d’Arc, Jean-Louis Millette as Father Walter, and Sanna Vraa as Young Granny.

Some Girls was released in the United States on 9 September 1988. It seems to have taken remarkably little money, $401,421 at the box office.

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