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ZUS & ZO Send This Review to a Friend
No one can accuse "Zus & Zo," an import from Holland, of being short on plot. There's enough here for a series. Writer-director Paula van der Oest has built a quasi comedy on the basic premise of three sisters trying to prevent their gay brother from marrying and thereby inheriting sole ownership of a family resort in Portugal, a property that has both personal and financial importance to the women.
The brother has his own reasons for marrying. The wedding is meant to be a marriage of convenience just to fill the inheritance requirement. Then he plans to sell the place to get money for a sex change operation. The scheming sisters resort to all sorts of maneuvers, including getting the husband of one to try to seduce the bride to be and thereby sully her reputation with the groom. The overflowing plot includes infidelity, the desire of one sister to open a pop art gallery, writing porn stories, a broken romance between the brother and his famous television chef amour, infighting between the sisters, cross-dressing and more.
There are some laughs along the way and the cast is capable. Although the film may have wowed them in Holland, there is so much tossed at us, plus an effort to be serious here and there, that there's more than one film can support. A Lifesize Entertainment release.
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