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Rotten Tomatoes® Score 63%
R | 1h 43m | Drama
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The poignant story of two sisters. Elfrieda (Sarah Gadon) is a gifted, beautiful, happily married and much celebrated concert pianist who struggles with acute depression and a desire to follow in her father’s footsteps by committing suicide. Yolandi (Alison Pill) is a struggling writer who feels like a failure, with children from different fathers. When Elf makes a second attempt on her life and decides she wants to go to a clinic in Switzerland that will help her end her life, Yolandi makes it her mission to save her sister. Based on the international best-selling novel of the same name by Canadian Miriam Toews.
Director: Michael McGowan
Studio: Voltage Pictures
Producer(s): Michael McGowan, Patrice Theroux, Tyler Levine
Cast: Alison Pill, Sarah Gadon, Amybeth McNulty, Donal Logue, Mare Winningham
Writer(s): Michael McGowan
6 votes and 3 Reviews
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Rotten Tomatoes® Score 63%
R | 1h 43m | Drama
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The poignant story of two sisters. Elfrieda (Sarah Gadon) is a gifted, beautiful, happily married and much celebrated concert pianist who struggles with acute depression and a desire to follow in her father’s footsteps by committing suicide. Yolandi (Alison Pill) is a struggling writer who feels like a failure, with children from different fathers. When Elf makes a second attempt on her life and decides she wants to go to a clinic in Switzerland that will help her end her life, Yolandi makes it her mission to save her sister. Based on the international best-selling novel of the same name by Canadian Miriam Toews.
Rotten Tomatoes® Score 63%
R | 1h 43m | Drama
The poignant story of two sisters. Elfrieda (Sarah Gadon) is a gifted, beautiful, happily married and much celebrated concert pianist who struggles with acute depression and a desire to follow in her father’s footsteps by committing suicide.
Yolandi (Alison Pill) is a struggling writer who feels like a failure, with children from different fathers. When Elf makes a second attempt on her life and decides she wants to go to a clinic in Switzerland that will help her end her life, Yolandi makes it her mission to save her sister.
Based on the international best-selling novel of the same name by Canadian Miriam Toews.
