User Reviews

Now I like a good damsel in distress movie, but this tripe was horrible! Several things happened that if done differently the movie would've ended very early. I can forgive a few, but several stupid actions is unforgivable. The father and daughter were okay, but the sisters were not. If your picture is portrayed on the news as a wanted person, what sense does it make to just stand out in the road? Or to get out of the vehicle and take your hat off and stand out in the open? What kind of sheriff's deputy can't piece a few things together quickly? Oh, but I did like the ending though, especially the deputy's sister!

I like Brianna, Nicole and Jonothan. I have seen more than one Liftetime movie from all three of them. The story was pretty good. It was similar to another good Lifetime move, Bury the Past starring. Sarah Allen, Rebecca Amzallag, and Damien Runyan the latter of which I do not like, 'cause he always plays the psycho bad guy.

In both movies the victims arre married to abusive cops. Anyway like I said I liked the story. Good performances by all except for the three stooges idiot cops (Selma's abusive husband and his two co-conspirators). Their acting was simply appalling. To me that was a big let down of otherwise an above average Lifetime TV movie.

The title "Sisters on the Run" conveys the main action of this film. But the earlier title of "Broken Ties" gets closer to the essence of the bonding of two sisters, Maddie and Selma Carrera.

At one point in the film, there was the offhand reference to the two sisters as Thelma and Louise. But that analogy was not accurate because Maddie and Selma were not criminals on the lam, but decent, law-abiding women.

The younger sister, Selma, had some bad breaks in life, including having to serve as caretaker to a deeply troubled mother. Now, she is in trouble after apparently murdering her abusive husband, Jason Sinclair. The problem is that Jason is a dirty cop and the ringleader of a drug trafficking operation.

Selma and Maddie go on the run when the other crooked cops locate Selma, who is residing with her sister. The actresses were outstanding in exploring a transformation of each of their characters. Selma goes from being a self-absorbed victim to a strong-willed agent of her own destiny. Maddie is transformed from a stuffy and callous wife and mother into someone who is sensitive of the feelings of other people. The dual transmogrification was because of the magical effect the sisters have on each other.

There was also a good cop, bad cop theme, with the good cop Rusty ending in a romantic association with Selma. But the touching denouement of the film appropriately isolated the two sisters in a compositional frame that demonstrated the degree to which their ties were no longer broken.