Wonderful character development!

Best movie of this year hands down!

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Perfect Sisters surprised me a bit. I'm familiar with the murder and a tad familiar with the details of the case, however, I was not expecting to actually excuse the girls sin when I viewed this film. I have to say the director did a fantastic job portraying the girls to the best of his knowledge especially since this case was so hush hush about the identity of the two sisters. At the beginning of the film, the home videos shown was a very nice touch. It helps the viewer become emotionally involved. I was rooting for the mother at first, moving to a new town, starting fresh with a new job, and all that jazz, but, she relapses shortly after her and her three children move in to their apartment. Now the sisters are left to pick up the pieces and take care of their younger brother while attending school themselves. A lot of responsibility for young girls, it is something they shouldn't have to do. When the girls decide it's time to call protective services on their mother, the response was so alarming. It really spoke decibels of how lousy the system is. To top things off, the girls have to deal with whatever trash their mother drags into the home. So murder seemed to be the only plausible answer here. It is truly sad how much those two girls dealt with. I gave this movie a 6 because while the story line is real, the acting was a tad off but all in all it was a decent movie. Even had moments of humor, twisted humor of course. Hard to believe that children are able to do some of the things they do and not lose a wink of sleep.

The true-life premise of Perfect Sisters is certainly intriguing, and the young leads performed admirably, but altogether it felt to me like this movie was a bit melodramatic and episodic in nature; I probably would have really been affected by it had I seen it at age 14, but as an adult I found myself actually rolling my eyes at some of the developments.It's likely been compared to the far superior 'Heav0nly Creatures' many times, so I won't dwell - I'll just say that the subtleties of that film contrast with the tunnel-vision juvenile point of view that was apparently written into the script of Perfect Sisters. Everything seemed over simplified; characters (except for the two protagonists) were given the one-dimensional treatment, and there was very little in the way of suspense or development. It doesn't help that Mira Sorvino's talent is sorely wasted on a character so devoid of complexity as to be a walking stereotype. While I sense that the director and writer were trying to convey the story through the eyes of the two sisters, it seems the audience is denied the full truth about their mother. One thing that was fun to see was the witticisms of the sisters and how their fantasy life was portrayed on screen; I just wish their had been more of that and a lot less whining and breast-beating.Having listed all those negatives, I'll conclude that it's still a movie worth viewing for the simple fact that it did actually happen - and for its demonstration of the stupidity that causes violent criminals to get themselves caught sometimes.

Based on a true story of Sandra and Elizabeth (Beth) Anderson. Otherwise known as The Bathtub Girls in Mississuaga, Canada.Very sad and disturbing regarding what the girls were dealing with on a daily basis. The sisters seemed more mature than the mom. Being round drink and drugs on a daily basis they'd either join in or hate it, the sisters hate it. Very good acting from all those involved and seemed spot on to me. The sisters dealing with the abuse on a daily basis, the mom who can't seem to stay away from drinking and getting with guys who aren't the nicest. After dealing with more than they can take the girls speak to their dad who now has a new family and to me doesn't want to know. They contact social services for help,they are told to document everything down, not what they wanted to hear.After further abuse the sisters decide to take matters into their own hands, along with a couple of friends they plot to murder the mom. Once it is done the sister who committed the murder goes on a downward spiral of drinking and her attitude changes, she becomes a mirror image of her mom. She brags about the murder and how it was done. Her boyfriend then goes to the police. The trial begins.

I was looking for some gripping, even chilling story about dysfunctional teenagers. Like what we saw in "Thirteen", which was a great movie, but now with a - true - crime story. Nah.The director has been a producer for over 30 years and got some famous people to act in it. The actresses (the three of them) are really good. However, the direction takes a completely wrong turn, trying to make it a "dark teen fantasy-comedy-thriller-drama" salad. For instance, you start to wonder how two young girl plan the murders and... you have four teenagers enacting fantasies about murder. That's so not the thing this film should portray.All the intentions to connect with teenagers were completely flawed. Bad soundtrack, TERRIBLE montage effects, ludicrous mixture of genres, awful cinematography work. It's like parents using slang. All the attempts to highlight the medium -- divided screen, special lights, accelerated camera -- are pathetic and would not even work in an MTV show in 1997. It's not a film for teenagers -- and if it was supposed to be, it didn't work either.There are scenes that people's faces are covered by SOMEONE'S HEAD -- and not intentionally! Unbelievable. If you are a director making a debut, be humble and let a competent cinematographer AND editor do their jobs. How beautiful this film would On the top of that, a voice-over starts giving ANOTHER angle on the film -- those films about bitchy teenagers obsessed with fame, kind of like To Die For from Gus Van Sant -- only to forget about it minutes later and never coming back to that.Anyways. I was interested in the story, and through all the amateur work I could grasp something from it. The two girls are great actresses, and Mira Sorvino portrays precisely the thin line between a likable weak person and a wreck that screws up their children.Somewhere I heard this: some people don't have to work their way into the center of the stage. They can pull strings and buy themselves into it. Question is: are they ready for it?