They play off of each other very well and are convincing as a mother and daughter. Individually, they are both competent actors, but their time together on screen is dynamic and overcomes some of the conventions of the script. Christina Ricci is also good as younger sister Kate, but her character is never fully explored until the film's climax. On DVD, we're given a decent looking anamorphic widescreen picture. Colors are solid and exhibit little bleed, and flesh tones are natural and even.
Contrast is adequate, and there is little in the way of compression artifacting or edge enhancement.
There is some age-related grain that makes the picture look dated, but it's never exceedingly heavy. Black detail is a little lacking, which produces a picture that looks a messy in darker evening scenes. The audio is an adequate 2.0 surround mix that makes use of the rear speakers only sparingly. Dialogue is mixed lower than the other portions of the audio, so I often had to crank up the volume higher than normal to hear what was being said. This, in turn, made the rest of the soundtrack unnecessarily loud.