Sister Aimee

Sister Aimee is a 2019 American biographical film written and directed by Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann and starring Anna Margaret Hollyman as Aimee Semple McPherson. It is a fictionalized account of McPherson's 1926 disappearance.^[1][2]

Sister Aimee
Directed by	Samantha Buck Marie Schlingmann
Written by	Samantha Buck Marie Schlingmann
Produced by	Bettina Barrow David Hartstein Katherine Harper
Starring	Anna Margaret Hollyman
Cinematography	Carlos Valdes-Lora
Edited by	Katie Ennis
Music by	Graham Reynolds
Distributed by	1091 Pictures
Release date	September 27, 2019 (2019-09-27)
Running time	87 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Cast

• Julie White
• Amy Hargreaves
• Anna Margaret Hollyman
• Andrea Suarez Paz
• Jordan Elsass
• Michael Mosley
• Blake DeLong
• John Merriman
• Macon Blair
• Bill Wise

Production

The film was shot in Texas and New Mexico.^[3]

Release

The film was shown at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and the 2019 South by Southwest Film Festival.^[3][4] It was then released in select theaters on September 27, 2019, and on VOD on October 1, 2019.^[5][6]

Reception

The film has a 67% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.^[7] Kate Erbland of IndieWire graded the film a B−.^[8] Norman Gidney of Film Threat gave the film seven stars out of ten.^[4]

Candice Frederick of TheWrap gave the film a negative review and wrote, "The gendered themes at play here do little to boost the quality of Buck and Schlingmann’s storytelling, which is too tangled to follow at times."^[9] Beandrea July of The Hollywood Reporter also gave the film a negative review and wrote, "Buck and Schlingmann have ideas, but they just don’t add up to something impactful here."^[3]