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Bessie and Lee are sisters who have remained apart for nearly 20 years due to radically different personalities and life paths. When Bessie knows that she has leukemia, she attempts to end the feud with her sister to get her bone marrow.
Based on a play by Scott McPherson's who died of AIDS, it's impossible to watch the well-acted film (particularly Diane Keaton, who should get an Oscar nod) without thinking of its themees: the various approaches to love and the strength of family bonds
December 26, 2006
Kansas City Kansan
Slow, depressing family drama finely acted
October 23, 2004
Film Geek Central
Great work from Dicaprio, De Niro, and especially Streep certainly make the film watchable, but it still can't save it from feeling like a TV movie of the week. If you're a fan of melodrama... and over 60, then you'll find much to like.
Any movie with Meryl Streep is an occasion, but when you add Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Hume Cronyn and Gwen Verdon, you've got an embarrassment of riches.