Opening
with a scene of a happy family playing on the beach and running in and out of
the sea, this movie mistakenly tricks you into thinking it will be about happy
family life, but nothing could be further from the truth.
Based
on a true story, Deadly Sisters
focuses on Sandra and Beth Andersen, sisters who along with their mum and
brother continually move house and live an unconventional life with the sisters
playing the role of parents due to their mum’s battle with alcoholism and
introducing abusive men into the family.
As
the sisters escape their home life by throwing themselves into partying and hanging
out with friends, they come up with the idea of claiming insurance money if
their mum was to die and therefore plan on how to ensure she does.
Starting
off as just throwing around ideas, the sisters discuss their plan with a few
friends all of whom encourage them, but when the sisters go through with it and
their mum is discovered dead, it’s up to them to maintain the idea that she
died by drowning while drunk.
But
as the reality of their actions sets in, as the one who actually committed the
act of murder, Sandra struggles to keep quiet and can’t help talking about it
at school. However while some students think she’s joking, it’s not long before
the truth is discovered and the sisters are facing the consequences of their
actions.
This
movie didn’t grab me and I found my mind wandering throughout. With Abigail
Breslin and Georgie Henley (The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe) starring as
the sisters, to be honest I thought they both over-acted and at times made the
movie seem really amateur.
Learning
at the end of the movie about the real life sisters, I found it interesting
that it took so long to discover the truth about their mother’s death and as a
whole this movie left me empty.
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