1.   Diane Lane plays her sister, Stella, and John Goodman is her suitor, Mitch.

2.   Eventually, Ms. Madigan agreed to play the sister.

3.   In a staged reading, mother and daughter once played sisters, and in a production of Hamlet, Daniela was Hamlet while Miriam played Gertrude, his mother.

4.   Jean Stapleton, Ruth Maxwell and Hallie Foote play a sisters struggling with the stigma of their ruthless Yankee father, who settled in Texas after the Civil War.

5.   Lange and Pfeiffer just had to decide which actress would play which sister.

6.   Nor did anyone tell Mary Alice or Gloria Foster, who play the sisters.

7.   Of the five actors playing Irish sisters, three were British, only one was Irish, and Streep was the sole American.

8.   Patricia Arquette and Frances McDormand play sisters whose vacation to Myanmar turns dangerous.

9.   Rachel Griffiths plays her sister, Hilary, who swapped a career for cozy domesticity.

10.   Ruby Dee and Diahann Carroll play the sisters as old women.