Thanks for the memories!

Absolutely the worst movie.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

The Other SisterYou know that you are the black sheep of your family when you have to spend the entire family reunion locked in the attic.Thankfully, modern laws forbid the parents in this romantic-comedy from confining their disabled daughter.Returning home to her ashamed parents (Diane Keaton, Tom Skerritt) after an extended stint at a special needs boarding school, Carla (Juliette Lewis) has a hard time adhering to her stern mother's house rules - so she leaves.Eventually she starts dating a mentally disabled boy, Daniel (Giovanni Ribisi), causing even more tension between her and her mother. Their subsequent wedding is the final straw and Carla's mother refuses to attend the nuptials.Slapped together by sentimental schlockmeister Garry Marshall, this awkward attempt at constructing a developmentally disabled love story panders to base emotions. Meanwhile, Lewis and Ribisi's performances are profoundly poisonous.Besides, if retarded people can get married why can't the mentally disabled?Red Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca

Directed by Garry Marshall, "The Other Sister" is supposed to be a romantic comedy about two mentally challenged people that meet and fall in love. Carla Tate (Juliette Lewis), after being put away for a few years, returns home from a private boarding school to her wealthy family in the Bay area. While dealing with an overprotective and overbearing mother (Diane Keaton), Carla enrolls in the local community college, meets Danny (Giovanni Ribisi), falls in love, and decides to move out on her own. It seems that "The Other Sister" goes out of it's way to make retarded people look cute and act funny. Giovanni Ribisi is pretty good with his role but what is up with Juliette Lewis? I thought she was amazing as the dim-witted and simple-minded Adele in 1993's "Kalifornia". I just thought the performance was a little over the top. All in all, you have a movie with a really great cast that just sinks a little below average. A little preachy and glossy, it would have been better if it hadn't tried to be so damn cute and overdo itself. At just a over two hours running length, it could have used a little trim job as well.But hey, there's a lot worse movies out there that you could rent.Juliette Lewis has interesting cameos in "Romeo is Bleeding" (great movie) and "Strange Days" (not so great a movie).

First, I have to say to "Author: colleen from Boston, MA 12 March 2002" You are wrong about a line in the movie. The correct line is....Carla asked Daniel, "I wonder who thought up sex? And Daniel relied, "I think it was Madonna." That is the quote.I just watched this movie and it made me weep. Juliette Lewis and Giovanni Ribisi did excellent jobs playing their characters. They made you fall in love with them as they were falling in love with each other. You also became involved with their struggles in life. The movie could have been deeper, but I believe the writers and director did a good job in keeping the story light.Juliette Lewis and Giovanni Ribisi are very versatile and capable actors. I believe both gave excellent performances.

I'm not quite sure why everyone thinks this movie is bad. This movie touches my heart, and I'm sure many others with it's amazing plot line and wonderful characters.I guess people would say that the characters are undeveloped and not so thought out, but I disagree. Who are we to say what a mental handicapped person would act like? They're not all the same. I don't think people would like it if someone said that we were all the same.I think people don't like this movie because they are uncivilized and do not understand the difficulty that mentally challenged people have to face! I would like to see some of the people who don't like this movie pretend their mentally handicapped and not over do it or under do it.This movie should open your eyes and your heart to the challenging life mentally handicapped people have to deal with everyday. For those of you who poke fun at mentally handicapped people, I hope you take a look in the mirror and find out what makes you so selfish.