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Every family has a secret talent. In mine, it’s my sister, Lena. But this isn’t about her piano playing or her knack for winning trivia nights. Last year, Lena decided to make a movie. Not a shaky iPhone video for TikTok—a real, 90-minute independent film shot on a shoestring budget, with a script she wrote in her childhood bedroom.

We expected the movie to be a private joke—a DVD for future family reunions to cringe over. But last month, Leftovers got accepted into a small local film festival. The audience laughed at our inside jokes. People cried at the scene where the grandmother (our actual neighbor, Mrs. Pataki) forgets her son’s name. my sisters movie

The film is called Leftovers , a dark comedy about a dysfunctional family’s last Thanksgiving before selling their childhood home. Sound familiar? Let’s just say our real-life arguments about who ate the last slice of pecan pie were transcribed almost verbatim. Every family has a secret talent

After the screening, a stranger told my sister, “That felt like my own family.” Last year, Lena decided to make a movie