The Other Sister

(1999)

★ 6.4 IMDb · 182 votes

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Year: 1999

Runtime: 130 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Garry Marshall

Cast: Джульетт Льюис, Дайан Китон, Том Скеррит, Джованни Рибизи, Poppy Montgomery, Сара Полсон, Linda Thorson, Джо Флениган, Джульетт Миллс, Tracy Reiner

Plot

A mentally challenged girl proves herself to be every bit as capable as her "perfect" sister when she moves into an apartment and begins going to college.

When Carla Tate, now a young woman, is 'graduated' out of the training school where she has resided for many years because she is mentally challenged, her hope is that she will be accepted for all that she can now do for herself. But Carla's family is wealthy which permits her mother, already blinded to her daughter's rather high-functioning abilities, to try and provide for Carla beyond her needs or desires, bringing forth the inevitable confrontations... for what Carla may lack in mental ability she certainly makes up for in her insistence on being independent, even to living in her own apartment. But if this isn't enough, into the mix comes a young man, equally challenged mentally, who moves Carla beyond anyone's control...