Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...closet. As she got older she ran away in other ways: school problems; an early, unwanted pregnancy and marriage; and a bad-check charge (later dismissed). After her breakthrough film roles in American Graffiti and Magnum Force, her therapist observed that she was ill prepared for good fortune. Somers' sister and two brothers all followed their father in alcoholism. But the real point of this grim but touching account is that parents and siblings, the drinkers and those who stoically enabled others to drink, eventually turned to Alcoholics Anonymous and Al-Anon and were able to rebuild their sense...
...summer in Maine, August to be exact, and two sisters are spending their summer breathing fresh air and reminiscing about their lives. Their attitudes couldn't be more different. Sarah (played by Gish) happily remembers her past, but she does not live in it. Her sister Libby (Davis), on the other hand, whom age has blinded, is bitter about the tricks life has played on her. She expected her marriage to be like the mating of swans--a lifelong affair--but life fooled her. "She was always a difficult woman, even under the best of circumstances," one character tells Sarah...
...does not even want to live anymore. When her sister wants to have a picture window installed at the summer house, Libby tells her, "We're too old for new things." She even has nightmares about death coming to get her and she wants her sister to go with...
Sarah finds him charming, Tisha condescends to like him, but Libby--well, how could she like someone who she fears might take her sister away from...
...held, and it lacks some of the most elementary information. For example, it is not known for certain whether he has any siblings. Some Soviets say he has a brother who works in agriculture, but no one seems to know the man's name or age. Reports of a sister cannot be confirmed...