“I’m just an entertainer, that’s all,” says Aimee Semple McPherson (Anna Margaret Hollyman, “20 Weeks”) in a new trailer for “Sister Aimee.” “I tell stories.” Her stories impact a large audience. We’re told that Sister Aimee is the “second most popular religious figure in America,” despite the fact that “her first husband died mysteriously” and many folks are unimpressed with her “flair.”
Set in 1926 and inspired by a true story, “Sister Aimee” follows the renowned evangelist as she fakes her own death, leaving her empire and fame behind for a new life in Mexico.
“While the film is based on a real person and events in her life, it’s not a biopic at all, but instead very much our imagination — gone wild — of what might have happened,” “Sister Aimee” writer-directors Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann told us. “It hopefully says something truthful about female ambition, identity, and the power –and privilege– of storytelling.” The married duo added, “Looking at Aimee’s life and her disappearance, we felt there was a chance for an exciting, improbable, complex telling of a powerful woman’s decision to leave behind the thing that gave her that power.”
Buck and Schlingmann previously collaborated on shorts “The Mink Catcher” and “Canary.”
“Sister Aimee” hits select theaters September 27.
