Riding The Bus With My Sister (2005 Drama Starring Rosie O'Donnell) Part 5 of 7

This perceptive, uplifting chronicle shows how much Rachel, a photographer, had to learn from her mentally retarded sister, Beth, about life, love and happiness. Beth lives independently and is in a long-term romantic relationship, but perhaps the most surprising thing about her, certainly to her (mostly) supportive family, is how she spends her days riding buses. Six days a week (the buses don't run on Sundays in her unnamed Pennsylvania city), all day, she cruises around, chatting up her favourite drivers, dispensing advice and holding her ground against those who find her a nuisance. Rachel joined Beth on her rides for a year, a few days every two weeks, in an attempt to mend their distanced relationship and gain some insight into Beth's daily life. She wound up learning a great deal about herself and how narrowly she'd been seeing the world. Beth's community within the transit system is a much stronger network than the one Rachel has in her hectic world, and some of the portraits of drivers and the other people in Beth's life are unforgettable. Rachel juxtaposes this with the story of their childhood, including the dissolution of their parents' marriage and the devastating abandonment by their mother, the effect of which is tied poignantly to the sisters' present relationship. Although she is honest about the frustrations of relating to her stubborn sister, Rachel comes to a new appreciation of her, and it is a pleasure for readers to share in that discovery.

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Film & Animation

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• Riding The Bus With My Sister
• Rosie O'Donnell
• Andie MacDowell
• Richard T. Jones
• Family
• Disability
• friendship
• courage
• love
• home
• real live
• sweet
• emotional
• Moving
• Based On A Book
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[Lickmytroubles]

Plz don't go out at night I tell you 5 or 7 times... Classic

[girlstorm09]

lol its like the bus driver is talking to a bunch of little third graders picking on an outcast kid...how sad that some adults never grow upO.O

[MouseOfVirtue]

They make this wayy harsher then it was in the book. DRAMA

[BarbieDollzful]

OMG Rachel you don't put whites in with colors.

[NumOneJoeJonasLuver]

@gridlo I know. It's sad to think people are like that.

[springerj100]

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[emogall100]

awwww omg i love jesse he is such a sweer guy :)

[gridlo]

People sure enjoy picking on the handicapped in this movie.