Word: sisterly
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Kellaway is one of a set of identical triplets. She and her sister identify as gay women and their brother is transgender...
...going to be like those old ladies in an Agatha Christie book, on some kind of train, that people run into and say, 'Oh, those are those weird sisters.'' --Kate Mulleavy of Rodarte on working with her sister...
...witless) family. Margot (Nicole Kidman, muting her starry presence, but unable to find a plausible alternative) is the literary figure here, a writer of grim stories that I'm pretty certain I'd run miles to avoid reading. She appears, glumly sardonic, at the island home of her sister, Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh), to witness her marriage to a slacker named Malcolm (Jack Black), who spends most of his time either bursting into tears or bursting into angry flames. The two women don't much care for each other, and various people, mostly associated with Margot - a husband...
...death in 1962. “And my mother joined him in the business after a couple of years and they ran that bookstore, which was really a pretty small bookstore, all used books. Just two people running the store and probably my father’s sister worked in the store as a bookkeeper, and they did that all through the Depression until 1950 when they moved up to one of the three storefronts we have now on Mass. Ave.”As other Square book stores expanded, contracted, and eventually went bankrupt, Harvard Book Store?...
...film is ultimately a beautiful but fractured anecdote of a film, and not much more. In the titular role, Nicole Kidman plays a moderately successful author and mother of two who, along with her son (Zane Pais), returns to her childhood home where her younger sister is about to be married. Kidman, relishing the role of a hovering, parental perfectionist, disapproves strongly of sister Jennifer Jason Leigh’s engagement to scatterbrained starving artist Jack Black. Throw in Kidman’s own extramarital affair with the local literary savant, a family of bizarre survivalist neighbors, Pais?...