Aahana Swrup
The family comedy film ‘Sisterhood, Inc.’ follows the story of two sisters who employ an unconventional bonding method. Megan, a straight-laced corporate executive, and her perpetually surrounded-by-chaos sister, Izzy, have never truly gotten along. Therefore, an unexpected opportunity presents itself when the former loses her job and finds a new project: fixing her sister’s life for her. Consequently, Megan forms a board of directors who will help her shape Izzy’s messy life into some semblance of balance. During this process, the older sister inevitably ends up catching the eye of Dominic, a psych professor who just might be able to see through all her put-upon walls. Thus, this quest to remodel Izzy’s life also offers a promising new start for her sister. SPOILERS AHEAD!
Sisterhood, Inc. is a Story About Sisterly Love
‘Sisterhood, Inc.’ presents a fun-filled, character-driven story in which the sisterly bond between the central leads becomes the film’s biggest asset. Once the narrative effectively establishes the night-and-day personalities of the two protagonists, Megan and Izzy, it sets up fertile ground for their dynamic to take off. Likewise, it also shoehorns a seamless and early introduction to the love interest, Dominic, who asserts himself as a natural opposing force to Megan’s controlling tendencies. As a result, the hearty friction between the interpersonal relationships of these characters becomes the driving force within the story. As Megan and her appointed board of directors take over the reins of Izzy’s life, entertaining montages of idyllic life improvements follow until conflict eventually catches up with the narrative.
As a result, Izzy sheds her passive role and takes on the center stage—both in the film and in the literal story of her life. Thus, the storyline begins to flip on its axis, introducing new complications and plot threads. However, even though the flip is predictable and expected, the narrative build-up to it remains lackluster. For the same reason, some of Megan’s path to redeeming her actions may seem unearned, while the reckoning she faces ends up feeling half-hearted. Nonetheless, despite these discrepancies, the tale brings everything back to a satisfying conclusion as the two sisters meet in the middle, growing under the weight of the character arcs they underwent throughout the story. Thus, at the end of the tunnel, the sisters emerge—with new bridges formed and lessons learned.
Sisterhood, Inc. Plot Summary
Megan Moore is a textbook Type-A personality who loves her job as the CEO of a management app, BeScheduled. Therefore, when the board of directors passes the motion to have her replaced with the chairman’s daughter, it inevitably leaves her feeling lost and betrayed. Nonetheless, she wastes no time and tries to get back out to the corporate pool by reaching out to her friend at a recruiting firm. Simultaneously, she also entertains the idea of stepping out of her learned schedule and takes the advice of a psychology professor online who encourages people to “bubble hop” and partake in life experiences they would usually shy away from. Eventually, she also gets around to visiting her family, mother Lois, stepfather, Kenny, and younger sister, Izzy.
Even though her family is incredibly close to one another, Megan has always felt on the outside around them. Consequently, after one too many cocktails, she ends up heavily Izzy’s lifestyle, in which she remains heavily reliant on their mother for everything from a social life to a financial one. However, instead of being offended, the woman—who currently works as a pizza delivery driver and lives with her parents—realizes the truth in her sister’s words. For the same reason, she decides to hand over the reins of her life to Megan. Even though the other woman is reluctant at first, she likes the idea of managing and improving someone else’s life. Thus, she creates a board of directors to oversee Izzy’s life decisions and help her become her best self.
In this board of unpaid directors is Ava, one of her fashion designer friends; Frank, Izzy’s current boss and former finance worker; Patsy, their old babysitter to help out with woman’s love life; and Dominic, a psych professor who responded to the online advertisement. Together, this group of people helps Izzy find a job at an art gallery through a mildly doctored resume and find a successful young man, Carson—who is the polar opposite of her deadbeat exes. Furthermore, Megan also helps her sister get a jazzy new apartment, cementing her brand new adult life. Since she also convinces the other woman to keep the entire deal a secret from their mother, Lois inevitably grows suspicious of the changes in Izzy’s life.
Meanwhile, Megan begins to use this project as a prototype for her new app idea and even manages to find an interested investor. Simultaneously, she also grows closer to Dominic, whose psychology degree helps him get a better read on the woman than anyone. For instance, even though she denies it, he can tell that she feels jealous of the close relationship Izzy has with their mother. Eventually, they end up on an impromptu date that ends with a kiss. However, Megan hastily puts out their budding romance the next day, claiming it would jeopardize the state of Izzy’s board of directors. On the other hand, her younger sister begins to detest the changes she has made to her life as she begins to realize that she’s missing out on everything that she truly cares about.
As a result, Izzy predictably falls back on her old ways. She breaks up with Carson, quits her job, and throws a rager at her new apartment that invites unwanted attention from the cops. This leads to an argument between the two sisters since Megan refuses to see things from the other woman’s perspective. Nevertheless, she hopes to fix things up with her sister the next morning, especially once she gets the news that her investor wants to go forward with her project idea. However, once she meets up with Izzy and the rest of the board, a harsh truth comes out. As it turns out, Megan’s investor has revealed the details of the app in a press release, disclosing everything about her mission to fix Izzy’s life. Consequently, the younger sister feels exploited as she hadn’t expected her sister to make a business opportunity out of her life.
Therefore, the board naturally dissolves, and Megan once again finds herself distanced from her sister. This drastic turn of events also makes the woman see the error in her own ways. Furthermore, a conversation with her mother helps her realize that Izzy has taken some of her advice and is starting to enter a new chapter of her life on her own terms. The conversation also helps Megan overcome some of her toxic independent traits, allowing her to see the importance of community. She also decides to turn down the app opportunity and instead decides to help in the growth of a small business. As a result, she decides to apologize to her sister through a grand gesture: a 30th birthday party at a roller rink. Ultimately, the two sisters makeup, and Megan learns how to let go of her micromanaging habits. Thus, she finally allows herself the vulnerability to accept her growing feelings for Dominic, who is all too happy to reciprocate.
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