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- 2015
- PG-13
- Freestyle Digital Media
- 1 h 44 m
- 2015
- PG-13
- Freestyle Digital Media
- 1 h 44 m
Summary When a teenage girl says she's the victim of a secret network called The Sisterhood of Night, a quiet suburban town becomes the backdrop for a modern-day Salem witch trial.
Directed By: Caryn Waechter
Written By: Marilyn Fu, Steven Millhauser
- 2015
- PG-13
- Freestyle Digital Media
- 1 h 44 m
- 2015
- PG-13
- Freestyle Digital Media
- 1 h 44 m
The Sisterhood of Night
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Summary When a teenage girl says she's the victim of a secret network called The Sisterhood of Night, a quiet suburban town becomes the backdrop for a modern-day Salem witch trial.
Directed By: Caryn Waechter
Written By: Marilyn Fu, Steven Millhauser
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Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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The film is so unusually moving and penetrating because it refuses to cloud its emotions in distancing irony, anger, or nihilism.
Even with sections recalling both “The Crucible” and an “Afterschool Special,” it still fashions a story that’s fairly fresh and often absorbing.
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Based on 9 User Ratings
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User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 9 User Ratings
6.0
56% Positive
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22% Mixed
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The Sisterhood of Night doesn't fully live up to its promise, with its themes never quite coming into focus. But along the way it presents a vivid depiction of teen angst that feels far realer than the usual exploitive Hollywood treatment.
What director Caryn Waechter does best is artfully and lyrically capture moments of teenage abandon where the girls feel free, self-possessed and full of friendship love.
As silly as it is, Sisterhood is smart as well, about the modern draw of victimization and attention, and how people (not just girls, and not just teenagers) who live life on a perpetually scrolling online stage can become starved for validation in any form.
An alternately sensitive and heavy-handed small-town drama that turns the Salem witchcraft trials into a tenuous metaphor for the intense pressures brought to bear on today’s female youth.
It's a sweet, sympathetic film, based on wise and memorable material and featuring inspired performances from its teen cast, but it simply collapses.
Production Company
Cine Mosaic,
Deep Forest Productions,
Evenstar Films,
Galatafilm
Release Date Apr 10, 2015
Duration 1 h 44 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline The Salem Witch Trials remixed.
Awards
Tribeca Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Woodstock Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Brooklyn Girl Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
