Night, Mother

January. 01,0001

Rating：

9.1

Genre：

Drama

Keywords：

Suicide Mother Daughter Relationship Adaptation

Trailer Synopsis Cast

From Executive Producer Sheila Houlahan, 'Night, Mother' is a hybrid Twitch film that interweaves pre-filmed segments with live-streamed performance. Reset amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, this new adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play explores the concentric circles of isolation, grief, and suicide. During a Zoom call, Jessie (Sheila Houlahan) confesses to her mother Thelma (Ellen McLain) that she plans to commit suicide within the hour. 'Night, Mother' portrays a poignant and haunting picture of the current state of mental health care in America.

Ellen McLain as Thelma

Sheila Houlahan as Jesse

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Reviews

FuzzyTagz

0001/01/01

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

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Chirphymium

0001/01/02

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

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StyleSk8r

0001/01/03

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

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Fatma Suarez

0001/01/04

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

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