Three stepsisters and one dying father in one great movie.

I wish I had a nickel for every time I came across an entertaining and wise movie about a dysfunctional family. “The Royal Tenenbaums,” “Little Miss Sunshine,” “The Descendants,” “The Meyerowitz Stories,” “August: Osage County,” and the list goes on and on. What isn’t a family without arguments and behaviors? I deal with that from time to time, but that’s another story.

Azazel Jacobs’ latest entry “His Three Daughters” joins the party, as we meet three step-sisters, played universally excellent by Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen, and Carrie Coon, who have different mothers and the same father. And they all return home to aid their dying father, who is in hospice care.

This is, without a doubt, his best film since “The Lovers,” because of the unique and complicated character study he gives to the stepsisters, and the great actress he casts as them. Jacobs presents their relationship in a searing manner, which allows them to talk about their problems, instead of just making unhappy dispositions. This is a film we’re supposed to listen and acknowledge, especially if we have siblings.

The sisters of “His Three Daughters” consist of the pothead Rachel (Lyonne), who still lives at home, the controlling Brooklyn mom Katie (Coon), who tries to talk some sense into her sister about her behavior, and the young mother Christina (Olsen), who is separated from her kids for the first time. To clarify: there isn’t a custody battle, but she wants her kids’ last experiences at her old home to be delightful. She probably made the right choice considering the arguments Rachel and Katie engage themselves in, and how Christina has to explosively scold them about their behavior. Which is why she must set up a conversation between the three of them.

Christina acknowledges that each of them is different, and how each of them have known their father Vincent (Jay O. Sanders) and how their lives turned out for each other.

What should Vincent’s obituary say? As Rachel suggests: “Married a couple of crazy bitches, raised a few crazy bitches.” That’s pretty much sums up the movie, which represents the humanity in them. They all have their problems, and they come from his loins, so it all becomes a strong character study.

In Jacobs’ last movie “French Exit,” Michelle Pfeiffer was the best one thing about his film, which lacked the ambiance and consistency that would distinguish itself from his other films. It was a disappointing movie. In “His Three Daughters,” he steps forward, and introduces us to characters we would like to get to know in a dysfunctional family drama. Who else could cast Lyonne, Olsen, and Coon in explosive roles? And I mean performances where they really ease into script and struggle to deal with the pathos in their lives. Any one of these three women are poised for Oscar nominations.

There are monologues, some of which feel autistic to me because of how specific they are from time to time, and most of them bring out the qualities and difficulties of the characters. Some of the topics we can relate to, others we can’t, and yet, we’re able to listen and identify with them. This is a movie about what life throws at these siblings and how they deal with them.

“His Three Daughters” is a Netflix gem-one of the year’s best films-and if you see it in theaters or wait until it comes on the streaming site, you won’t forget it.

In Select Theaters This Weekend and Streaming on Netflix September 20