The Other Sister Page #2

Synopsis: 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...
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Garry Marshall
Production: Buena Vista
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Metacritic:
28
Rotten Tomatoes:
29%
PG-13
Year:
1999
129 min
976 Views


Sex is something that we talk

about in private, I think. Am I right?

No, but my teacher

at the school says...

that two people do it

when they're in love.

Well, I'm sorry, but I'm sure she meant that you

do it after, you know, you're married or something.

Definitely.

And then you don't talk about it

ever again in your whole life.

- Winnie.

- A special dessert for Carla.

- Oh, boy.

- Please.

- That's nice.

- So a doctorate, Jeff? That is so refreshing.

So what is your doctorate

dissertation gonna be on?

Um, multi-tiered financing

of petrol chemical surveys...

in an uncertain

political terrain.

Translation:
Finding the big bucks in tiny

little countries whose names you can't pronounce.

Wow!

I mean, it's so good to hear someone's

actually using their college education.

Come on. You know, I'm not teaching second

grade because I happen to like children.

You know, I think that

they're the hope of the world.

Of course they're the hope of the world,

but, really, isn't it just as noble...

to be a college professor

and earn four times the money?

- Mother!

- You know what. Daddy, will you make a toast right now?

I'd gladly make a toast, yeah.

To the Tate family and its good...

- I want to go to school also.

- That's great.

Well, dear, you just completed school. And, in fact, I

think they gave you a certificate of completion, didn't they?

I am gonna be

a veterinarian's assistant.

- Wow!

- And, but to do that, I need a high school diploma.

I think the best thing for right now would

be just to have a nice, big, long vacation...

and we'll explore

your options later.

- Okay. To the Ta...

- I would like to explore my options now, Mother.

Carla, we're all just a little bit too

tired for such an important conversation.

So, Radley...

To the Tate family,

all of us together again.

Follow me. Hurry.

- Just follow me.

- Stop it.

Stop following me.

I can't, stupid.

- Stop it!

- I told you, I can't, stupid.

Stop laughing at me!

Oh, my goodness!

Are you all right?

- Carla!

- Yeah.

All right. Now, I want you

to close your eyes. Close your eyes.

Okay, Carla.

All right.

- No, stop, stop. Stop.

- Yeah.

You can stop. Good girl.

Open your eyes. Surprise. Do you...

What do you think?

You think... Do you like it?

- You gave my room to somebody else?

- No!

I redecorated it for you, dear.

I just changed it a little.

- But where is my tea party table that was right here?

- Who did this?

Well, Carla, those are little-girl

things, and you're a young woman now.

Remember, downstairs you were talking

about taking on more responsibility.

- Well, this is...

- I want my things.

Carla, I really think that you should

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Garry Marshall

Garry Kent Marshall (November 13, 1934 – July 19, 2016) was an American film director, film producer, screenwriter and actor, best known for creating Happy Days and its various spin-offs, developing Neil Simon's 1965 play The Odd Couple for television, and directing Pretty Woman, Beaches, Runaway Bride, Valentine's Day, New Year's Eve, Mother's Day, The Princess Diaries, and The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement. more…

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