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Released in the glutted market of 1984—a year that gave us Ghostbusters , Beverly Hills Cop , and The Terminator — Sister Dearest stood little chance. Directed by little-remembered independent filmmaker Harriet Langdon, the film was a low-budget, black-and-white psychological drama about two siblings, Clara and Maeve, reuniting in their decaying Rhode Island family home after their mother’s death. The plot is deceptively simple: Clara, the responsible older sister who sacrificed her youth to care for their ailing mother, resents Maeve, the free-spirited younger sister who fled to New York to become a photographer. Over one rain-soaked weekend, buried secrets about abuse, neglect, and a long-lost third sibling surface. : Possessing or distributing the original, uncut version