As some of you may know, I have no siblings, so that contributes to them being an interesting subject for me. Everything I know about them comes from observation and what people say about their own experiences. I've seen, to a limited extent, how nice it can be to have them, and how annoying it can be to have them, but I don't it's going to capture fully what it's like. However, I have to take what I can get. So here are my Top 6 picks:

6. Adam, Benjamin, Caleb, Daniel, Ephraim, Frank(incense), and Gideon Pontipee, the titular brothers from Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954). Of course, don't call Frank by his full name in earshot or he'll try to beat you up. It was featured in All Movie Talk Episode 1's Top 6 list, Romantic Comedies That Aren't Sappy. So here, I throw in my recommendation.

5. Robbie, Jimmy, Kirk, Elizabeth, Annabelle, and Jane, the children in All Mine to Give, from 1957, based on the Dale Eunson novel "The Day They Gave Babies Away". The movie goes from before Robbie's birth to the final giveaway. It's a good movie, and an interesting look at a family that is forced apart.

4. And on the other end of the spectrum, we have Sharon McKendrick & Susan Evers, the twins played by Hayley Mills in The Parent Trap from 1961, or Hallie Parker & Annie James, the twins played by Lindsay Lohan in The Parent Trap from 1998. In these, we have sets of twins who each have no idea that the other exists until they coincidentally meet at camp. They at first don't like each other, but then they become great friends, and try to get the father of one to remarry the mother of the other and chase off the father's golddigger of a fiancée without letting on that that's their intent. I may have to watch the original again, but I really like the scene in the remake in which the two discover that they are, in fact, identical twins. You may recall that Sam called this one in his post, or... one of them.

3. I, like Grishny, went with Leia Organa and Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars trilogy (1977, 1980, 1983) for my third slot. And what a divergence in where they end up being hidden from their father: the girl grows up a princess, and the boy lives with his uncle as a moisture farmer.

2. Frank and Amelia Jene "A.J." Knowlton in Split Infinity, from 1992. Now, at the beginning of the movie, she's your basic big sister who loves her little brother but gets annoyed at him occasionally. Not terribly compelling in terms of the Top 6 list... so far. However, what makes this interesting is her relationship with her grandfather. You see, she does love him, but she doesn't understand him selling the land he had 63 years ago. "But", you may say, "what does this have to do with the topic?" Well, she takes a fall from a barn loft, and when she wakes up... she's her great aunt, the younger sister of her grandfather, a few days before Black Tuesday. She tries to keep him from selling it off and investing in the stock market, but ends up learning there's something more important.

1. And my top pick, which is probably the saddest choice on the list. It's Seita and Setsuko in Hotaru no haka (Grave of the Fireflies) in 1988. It's about a brother & sister who become orphaned in WWII-era Japan, and how he tries to take care of her and keep her spirits, and consequently his own, up. I won't tell you how it ends, but as I said for the Movies That Make You Cry or Want To Cry, have some facial tissues when you watch.

I do have a number that didn't make the list. If there's interest, I'll post some.