Little Sister — Trailer

added: Wed, Aug 31st '16

After making his mark with the 2013 off-kilter Christmas-set comedy "White Reindeer," writer-director-and-editor Zach Clark is back with another deadpan examination of family dysfunctionality and the rediscovery of self-identity.

In Clark's new offbeat film "Little Sister," Addison Timlin (Californication, Odd Thomas) plays a young nun-in-training who has reverted to her old life as a brooding Goth girl after traveling back to her hometown to reunite with her now-severely-disfigured, war veteran brother (Keith Poulson) and her estranged mother and pot-loving father. They're played by original "Breakfast Club" goth girl, Ally Sheedy, and "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" writer Peter Hedges; in a rare acting role.

"Little Sister," which also features former scream queen Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator) in the cast, received mostly positive reviews at this year's SXSW Film Festival. The movie is now headed to theaters and VOD on October 14. Watch the film's trailer, above.

synopsis:
October, 2008. Young nun Colleen is avoiding all contact from her family, until an email from her mother announces, "Your brother is home." On returning to her childhood home in Asheville, NC, she finds her old room exactly how she left it: painted black and covered in goth/metal posters. Her parents are happy enough to see her, but unease and awkwardness abounds. Her brother is living as a recluse in the guesthouse since returning home from the Iraq war. During Colleen's visit, tensions rise and fall with a little help from Halloween, pot cupcakes, and GWAR. Little Sister is a sad comedy about family -- a schmaltz-free, pathos-drenched, feel good movie for the little goth girl inside us all.

directed by Zach Clark

starring Addison Timlin, Ally Sheedy, Keith Poulson, Peter Hedges, Barbara Crampton

release date October 14, 2016 (in theaters and on VOD)