
The site's critical consensus reads, " Little Sister subverts indie drama expectations with a refreshingly off-kilter look at family dynamics that makes its points through solid characterizations and earnest effort." On Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating, the film has a score of 74 out of 100 based on 13 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 94% approval rating based on 34 reviews, with an average rating of 7.1/10. Little Sister received positive reviews from film critics. The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray on February 7, 2017.

Its theatrical release was later expanded to Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C.
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The movie was given a limited theatrical release in New York on October 14, 2016, with a simultaneous release on Amazon Video and iTunes in the US and worldwide on Vimeo. The movie's distribution rights were acquired by Joe Swanberg's Forager Films, a first for the company. Little Sister premiered at South by Southwest on March 12, 2016. In exterior shots, we tried to keep out-of-period cars to a minimum, but that’s probably where we were the most lax with the period setting." Release Website design was also pretty important for the period vibe.
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The news reports they watch on TV are almost verbatim recreations of the look and feel of Asheville, NC local news from the era. Beyond that, it was a lot of double-checking to make sure certain props or products would’ve existed in the period. On the subject of period detail, Clark said, "Our costume designer, David Withrow, was a real stickler for what was and wasn’t in fashion in 2008, and I think his work is the most meticulous in terms of selling the period. The prosthetic effects for the character of Jacob Lunsford were designed by Brian Spears and applied by Peter Gerner. No character is a verbatim representation of their namesakes, but every emotional beat in the movie has a real-life resonance for myself or Melodie." We shot most of the movie in her parents’ house. Melodie’s stepdad’s last name is Lunsford. I have a sister named Colleen, a brother named Jacob, a dad named Bill, and a mom named Joani. When asked in an interview if he added any autobiographical details to the film's story, director Zach Clark said, "My producer and creative life partner Melodie Sisk was generous enough to let me steal liberally from her life.We put our respective familial histories in a blender and that became the emotional backbone of Little Sister.
