Was there an embarrassment of riches? Bullock was a huge star, Judd was a very big star, and Burstyn was coming off a sixth Oscar nomination for Requiem for a Dream. I never read Wells' books, but I feel Khouri struggling to wedge fabulous incidents across sixty-some years into a two hour runtime.
Or more specifically, she is roofied(!) and kidnapped, by a blood-bound clan of hard-Chardonnaying seniors that includes Shirley Knight, Fionnula Flanagan, and Dame Maggie Smith - whose sticky Creole accent is on point, but still feels so deeply weird coming from the Dowager Countess.Īnd oh, the flashbacks, Leah. Not only that, the reporter makes it the crux of her ensuing profile, and Vivi takes the vapors so hard when she reads it that the prodigal daughter must return home and make it right. Here, she begins with the vaguely hilarious premise that a Time magazine reporter finds it fascinating to stand by while a New York playwright named Siddalee Walker ( Sandra Bullock) waxes and wanes on the various emotional quirks of her Louisiana mother, Viviane ( Ellen Burstyn).
Anyway, Sisterhood is based on the bestselling books by Rebecca Wells and written and directed by Callie Khouri, who has an absolutely deserved Oscar for her Thelma & Louise screenplay and two People's Choice Awards nods for Nashville, her dearly departed nighttime soap.
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