Soap Star Alicia Minshew In Film Release Oct 6

Walmart will promote an exclusive DVD of the drama-comedy "Lies I Told My Little Sister" featuring Emmy nominee Alicia Minshew of "All My Children" as part of its female-centric Bentonville Film Festival releases selected by Oscar-winner Geena Davis.
 
SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Sept. 29, 2015 - PRLog -- ​​​Three-time Emmy nominee and soap opera fan favorite Alicia Minshew (All My Children, Beacon Hill) is featured in an award-winning drama-comedy, Lies I Told My Little Sister, set for North American DVD release October 6 from ARC Entertainment. Walmart has the initial exclusive.

The female character-driven independent feature film about a family trip to Cape Cod was chosen in May by Academy Award-winner Geena Davis for her new Bentonville Film Festival (BFF), which champions women and diversity in media, and was picked up for distribution there. The A-list festival is sponsored by Walmart and Coca-Cola. The film's DVD will be branded as a "Geena Davis Selection" and carry the logo of BFF on its cover.

Minshew plays the oldest and most beloved of three sisters, whose untimely death from cancer drives the entire plot of a family trying to figure out how to go on without her. Amid the turmoil, grief, high drama, an old romance, a very strange shopkeeper and even a lot of laughter, a new awareness of love and family emerges to strengthen the bonds that once held them together.

The cast also stars Lucy Walters ("Holly" on STARZ hit drama series Power), rocker Ellen Foley (Cocktail, Night Court, Meat Loaf's Bat out of Hell duet partner), Emmy-nominee Donovan Patton ("Joe" from Blue's Clues), John Behlmann (Wolf of Wall Street, Revolutionary Road), and newcomer Michelle Petterson as the little sister.

Directed by William J. Stribling and written by woman screenwriter Judy White with her nephew, Jonathan Weisbrod (who also produced it), Lies I Told My Little Sister was a first-time feature film for all three. It won twelve film festival awards, including two acting nominations for Minshew. "I get a lot of scripts," Minshew says, "and most of them are pretty terrible. But I just loved the Lies screenplay and knew I wanted to be part of it."

Minshew relished her scenes, which are shown in flashback, and include one in which she nears the end of life. "I passed her in the hall on the way to that bedroom scene," recalls screenwriter White, "and she'd been made up to look like she was dying. I gasped and said, 'You look AWFUL!' And Lish just laughed and said, 'This is my THIRD coma!'" White laughs at the memory. "I guess soap opera stars just love getting their teeth into a good coma."

"Strong female characters in realistic women-led films are finally getting the attention they are due," says Scott Moesta, Executive V.P. & General Manager of ARC Entertainment, who was head of programming for the 2015 BFF. "Lies I Told My Little Sister is an excellent mix of drama and comedy about a family surviving loss, full of emotional impact and great acting."

Critics also especially noted the strong performance from Walters as the main character grieving her oldest sister and trying to deal with the younger sister she used to torment, in her first feature lead role. Best Acting Awards were won aby Foley as the family's mother, and by Patton, debuting in his first feature film lead, as the brother-in-law.

I Am Entertainment called the film "a truly beautiful blend of comedy and drama" in the portrayal of two sisters dealing with the universal childhood baggage that siblings drag around even after they've all grown up.

For more info, visit http://www.liesitoldmylittlesister.com

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Download high resolution images of Alicia Minshew during production of Lies I Told My Little Sister, as well as the DVD cover, from tinyurl.com/lies-minshew

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