Anonymous Sister

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Anonymous Sister

2023

1h 34m

Documentary

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When a young woman turns to the camera for refuge, she ends up with a firsthand account of what will become the deadliest man-made epidemic in United States history. Thirty years in the making, Anonymous Sister is two-time Emmy Award®-winning director Jamie Boyle's chronicle of her family's collision with the opioid epidemic.

Marya E. Gates

RogerEbert.com

06/02/2023

3/4

[Puts] a uniquely human face to what could easily be viewed with the cold distance of history.

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Michael Talbot-Haynes

Film Threat

10/16/2023

9/10

Whatever Boyle imagined when she was wee about what kind of films she wanted to make, I can guarantee she never imagined this one. Thank goodness she is as good a filmmaker as she is because you cannot underestimate the importance of this documentary.

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Shar Tan

In Review Online

06/05/2023

Anonymous Sisters is a fairly standard documentary — there are rarely any aesthetic embellishments to Boyle’s direction — but its brilliance lies in its familial intimacy and lived-in closeness.

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Christopher Llewellyn Reed

Hammer to Nail

06/02/2023

Dedicated to everyone who did not survive, "Anonymous Sister" reminds us at every turn to hold the perpetrators accountable.

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Mark Dujsik

Mark Reviews Movies

06/02/2023

3/4

Boyle ensures that we have some sense of the long, fatal scope of this human-made and greed-maintained epidemic.

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When a young woman turns to the camera for refuge, she ends up with a firsthand account of what will become the deadliest man-made epidemic in United States history. Thirty years in the making, Anonymous Sister is two-time Emmy Award®-winning director Jamie Boyle's chronicle of her family's collision with the opioid epidemic.

Director: Jamie Boyle
Producer: Jamie Boyle, Marilyn Ness, Elizabeth Westrate
Distributor: Long Shot Factory
Production Co: Vulcan Productions, Big Mouth Productions
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 2, 2023, Limited
Runtime: 1h 34m