In Jane Green’s modestly charming The Sunshine Sisters, the landscape never really darkens, despite the troubles at the heart of the story, beginning with the terminal illness of Ronni Sunshine, an aging movie star whose relationships with her three daughters have always been conditional. Ronni wants to bring her children together for one last family gathering, during which she will enlist them to help her painlessly end her life.
We get to that, but not before the narrative rolls back to 1981, as a 30-year-old Ronni is playing musical chairs with the casting couch. Her rise to fame was stratospheric: first cast in a film at 18, she had an early affair with Warren Beatty, who was so priapic he probably could have seduced a fictional starlet.
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In Jane Green’s modestly charming The Sunshine Sisters, the landscape never really darkens, despite the troubles at the heart of the story, beginning with the terminal illness of Ronni Sunshine, an aging movie star whose relationships with her three daughters have always been conditional. Ronni wants to bring her children together for one last family gathering, during which she will enlist them to help her painlessly end her life.
We get to that, but not before the narrative rolls back to 1981, as a 30-year-old Ronni is playing musical chairs with the casting couch. Her rise to fame was stratospheric: first cast in a film at 18, she had an early affair with Warren Beatty, who was so priapic he probably could have seduced a fictional starlet.
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