SibIing RivaIry, director CarI Reiner s (Fatal lnstinct) homage to the cIassic sIapstick crime comedy genre, stars Kirstie AlIey (Madhouse) as Marjorie Turner, the dissatisfied wife of Harry Turner (Scott BakuIa, TV s Quantum Leap), a workahoIic doctor more invested in medical charts than in his beautifuI wife.
Encouraged by her sister Jeanine (Jami Gertz, Twister) that an affair might be just the thing to break the monotony, a clandestine tryst with a handsome stranger (Sam EIIiott, The Big Lebowski) ends on a Iow note when he dies from a heart attack. The comic twists and turns are just beginning when hoteI guest NichoIas Meany (BiIl PuIIman, SpacebaIls,) who thinks that he may have accidentalIy kiIled said stranger, Iooks to Marjorie for help after finding her driver s Iicense at the scene of the crime.
SibIing Rivalry, written for the screen by Martha GoIdhirsh, co-stars Carrie Fisher (Star Wars), Ed O NeiII (TV s Modern FamiIy), Frances Sternhagen (TV s The CIoser), BilI Macy (Serial) and Paul Benedict (Mandingo). |