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Equal part a tale of two vacuum cleaners and love child
lunacy as in the case of discovering a Sis from another
Miss, Sisterhood is one of those devilish British comedies
in which the veneer of English propriety is barely a cover
for the determined nutty antics to come. And its unapologetically
wicked sense of humor gets a decidedly female touch here,
spun from the unrepentant imagination of Sisterhood star
and screenwriter, Emily Corcoran.***
Corcoran is Shirley, a brash tomboy and New Zealand
livestock farmer too isolated from society to have knowledge
about trivial pursuits like etiquette and femininity, or
care. When her alcoholic single mom drops dead one day after
being electrocuted while trying out her brand new vacuum
cleaner, Shirley takes off for the tonier side of London
to locate Catherine (Isabelle DeFaut), the none too pleased
half sister she never knew. And in the process leaving behind
a handsome hunk of a smitten local peasant she has no idea
is more than forthcoming about being madly in love with
her, to tend to milking the cows and shearing the sheep
while she's away.***
It seems that their good-for-nothing absentee father
Jack (Nicholas Ball), has made a sudden claim on the farm
that he had conned Shirley's departed mom into leaving to
him. And that Catherine's mother, who died the very same
day from the identical brand new vacuum cleaner, also left
the shop the two of them ran together, to a father Catherine
was told died long ago.***
Further complicating matters in delightfully peculiar
ways, is an elderly London woman that Jack learns by chance
has just won a bundle in a lottery, so he stops by there
rather stealthily on his way to claim Catherine's property,
to woo and propose marriage to the surprisingly sex-crazed
senior.***
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