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The Sisters Brothers

Make a killing. Make a living.

6.8(2,177)20182h 1m8

Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to know, so he sends the Sisters brothers, two notorious assassins, to capture him on his way to California.

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Status
Released
Budget
$38M
Box office
$13.1M
Language
Russian
  • gold
  • based on novel or book
  • hitman
  • san francisco, california
  • male friendship
  • gold rush
  • oregon, usa
  • scout
  • 19th century
  • gold claim
  • brother brother relationship

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Behind the camera

Produced in

France, Spain, Belgium, Romania, United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereCalgary Film Festival19 Sept 2018
    • Theatrical (limited)R21 Sept 2018
    • TheatricalR19 Oct 2018
    • Physical5 Feb 2019
  • United KingdomGB

    • PremiereBFI London Film Festival21 Oct 2018
    • Theatrical155 Apr 2019
    • Physical12 Aug 2019
  • United Arab EmiratesAE

    • Theatrical3 Jan 2019
  • AustraliaAU

    • TheatricalMA 15+28 Feb 2019
  • CanadaCA

    • PremiereR Toronto International Film Festival7 Sept 2018
    • Theatrical (limited)R5 Oct 2018
  • AustriaAT

    • Theatrical15 Mar 2019
  • BelgiumBE

    • PremiereGent International Film Festival18 Oct 2018
    • Theatrical24 Oct 2018
  • BrazilBR

    • PhysicalDVD26 Jul 2019
    • Digital / OTT1623 Oct 2020
  • BulgariaBG

    • TV27 Sept 2021
  • ChinaCN

    • PremiereBeijing International Film Festival15 Apr 2019
  • DenmarkDK

    • Theatrical1527 Jun 2019
  • EstoniaEE

    • Theatrical14 Dec 2018

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The Sisters Brothers was released on 19 September 2018.

Audience reviews

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    Gimly

    1/20/2019

    5/10

    Certainly the better of the two Westerns I've seen today, but I'm also not really feeling the love with _Sisters Brothers_ like everybody else seems to be. _Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole._

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    Stephen Campbell

    8/21/2019

    5/10

    _**A plodding and overlong tale of violence and redemption that doesn't seem to know quite what it's trying to say**_ > _You are afraid of hell. But that's all religion is, really. Fear of a place we'd rather not be, and where there's no such a thing as suicide to steal us away._ - Patrick deWitt; _The Sisters Brothers_ (2011) _The Sisters Brothers_ is a film set in the American Old West, based on a book by …

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    Horseface

    8/5/2023

    1/10

    I was looking forward to this. It has two of my favorite actors in it. Unfortunately, I had to give up on watching it. It's impossible to see what's going on. There are some shadows moving about, sometimes covering each other. A dot lights up occasionally on my 55-inch OLED. I can see subtitles, hear the sound. This is apparently one of those "someone invented HDR, that means we should put a cloth over the lens" kind…

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    CinemaSerf

    7/7/2024

    6/10

    It might be that the clever title and the fact that this is backed by an whole host of European film funds is all that makes this rather sterile Western memorable. It's all about the enigmatic "Commodore" (Rutger Hauer) employing the eponymous brothers - "Eli" (John C. Reilly) and "Charlie" (Joaquin Phoenix) to track down the mild-mannered prospector "Kermit Warm" (a rather mis-cast Riz Ahmed) whom he accuses of thef…

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