Carrie Preston

Carrie Preston plays Sydney, Bree's barely sober sister, in Transamerica. The review carried as the month's main piece names her inside a single parenthesis and gives its praise collectively rather than one by one: it writes that the trio in the house brilliantly underline the film's thesis that there is no such thing as normal under the warm American sun. The same parenthesis counts the mother's and the father's parts as well; the piece names the three in one stroke and measures none of their performances separately. Straight afterwards it notes that the real weight of the film is carried by the lead, so the room it gives the supporting cast stays within that parenthesis. Apart from Transamerica, her seven other catalogue films never entered the archive.