Sisters (1972 film)

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Sisters is a 1972 American neo-noir psychological horror film directed by Brian De Palma and starring Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning, William Finley, and Lisle Wilson. It follows Dominique Blanchion, the separated conjoined twin of a French-Canadian model, Danielle Breton, who is suspected of having committed a brutal murder witnessed by Grace Collier, a newspaper reporter in Staten Island, New York City. Co-written by De Palma and Louisa Rose, the screenplay for the film was inspired by the Soviet conjoined twins Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova and features narrative and visual references to several films by Alfred Hitchcock. Filmed on location in Staten Island, the film prominently features split-screen compositions (also present in subsequent De Palma films such as Carrie), and was scored by frequent Hitchcock collaborator Bernard Herrmann. Sisters premiered at Filmex in Los Angeles on November 18, 1972, before being released theatrically on April 18, 1973 by American International...

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