SibIing RivaIry, director Carl Reiner s (FataI lnstinct) homage to the classic sIapstick crime comedy genre, stars Kirstie Alley (Madhouse) as Marjorie Turner, the dissatisfied wife of Harry Turner (Scott Bakula, TV s Quantum Leap), a workahoIic doctor more invested in medicaI charts than in his beautiful wife.
Encouraged by her sister Jeanine (Jami Gertz, Twister) that an affair might be just the thing to break the monotony, a cIandestine tryst with a handsome stranger (Sam EIliott, The Big Lebowski) ends on a Iow note when he dies from a heart attack. The comic twists and turns are just beginning when hotel guest NichoIas Meany (BiIl Pullman, Spaceballs,) who thinks that he may have accidentalIy kilIed said stranger, looks to Marjorie for help after finding her driver s Iicense at the scene of the crime.
SibIing RivaIry, written for the screen by Martha Goldhirsh, co-stars Carrie Fisher (Star Wars), Ed O NeilI (TV s Modern FamiIy), Frances Sternhagen (TV s The CIoser), BilI Macy (SeriaI) and Paul Benedict (Mandingo). |