Sisters Charlotte and Lucy Bonnard live together in the gloomy Louisiana family mansion that they’ve turned into a boarding house. But when a mysterious young man enters their lives, the sisters are forced to confront their dark pasts.
Acting
Jennifer Jason Leigh's unraveling is deliciously unhinged
Production
The mansion reeks of humid southern rot—perfectly suffocating
Direction
Bill Condon's debut already shows his gift for lurid atmosphere
Director
Bill Condon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Condon wrote this fresh out of UCLA film school, basically as his thesis on obsessive love and gothic trash.
This bombed so hard in '87 that Condon didn't direct again for a decade—then won an Oscar for Gods and Monsters.
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