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Sister Aimee

Country: USA, Language: English, 85 mins

  • Director: Samantha Buck; Marie Schlingmann
  • Writer: Samantha Buck; Marie Schlingmann
  • Producer: Bettina Barrow; Katherine Harper; David Hartstein

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The sensational evangelist Sister Aimee Semple McPherson has pulled off her latest marvel: vanishing in plain sight of a devout disciple! Except that this disappearance was a cleverly orchestrated ploy to run away with her lover, a married writer named Kenny. Outfitted with new identities and a courageous guide named Rey, Aimee and Kenny head for Mexico, searching for inspiration and adventure. When Aimee tires of Kenny’s literary ineptitude, she enlists Rey’s help to ditch him in the desert. Yet getting Aimee back to Los Angeles—where the news, the police and her devotees are anxiously searching for her—will take a real miracle.

Writer/directors Marie Schlingmann and Samantha Buck construct a playful, carnivalesque world saturated with campfire folktales and irreverent characters. The core of the film’s power lies in Anna Margaret Hollyman’s performance as cunning show-woman Aimee and in her undeniable chemistry with Andrea Suarez Paz (the valiant Rey). Part 1920s radioplay, part western, part musical, and an all-around screwball comedy, Sister Aimee embraces one woman’s legend to validate the power of spectacle and the magic of a good storyteller.


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Cast & Characters

Michael Mosley as Kenny
Amy Hargreaves as Sister Semple
Macon Blair as Harold McPherson
Julie White as Minnie Kennedy
Lee Eddy as Hazel
Anna Margaret Hollyman as Sister Aimee
Luce Rains as Old Gas Attendant
Luis Bordonada as Officer Fernandez
Bill Wise as Billy Sunday
Nathan Zellner as Butch
Shane Jacobsen as Robert P. Shuler
David Born as Sheriff
Kimberly Ryans as Sister Aimee Follower
Gary Teague as Sister Aimee Believer
Carlton Caudle as Sister Aimee Believer