Mommy

Mommy

🎞️ Movie 139 min CA
โ˜… 8.0 /10 2014

Loving people doesn't save them

Forty-six year old Diane Després - 'Die' - has been widowed for three years. Considered white trash by many, Die does whatever she needs, including strutting her body in front of male employers who will look, to make an honest living. That bread-winning ability is affected when she makes the decision to remove her only offspring, fifteen year old Steve Després, from her previously imposed institutionalization, one step below juvenile detention. She institutionalized him shortly following her husband's death due to Steve's attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and his violent outbursts. He was just kicked out of the latest in a long line of facilities for setting fire to the cafeteria, in turn injuring another boy. She made this decision to deinstitutionalize him as she didn't like the alternative, sending him into more restrictive juvenile detention from which he would probably never be rehabilitated. However, with this deinstitutionalization, she has to take care of him which means only being able to do home based work. Despite they always yelling expletives at each other and Steve sometimes demonstrating those violent tendencies toward her, Die and Steve truly do love each other, his emotions which are sometimes manifested as an Oedipus complex especially as he seems to need her complete attention most specifically when it is being directed at possible male suitors. Their lives, both individually and as a family, are affected with the entrance of two of their neighbors. The first is Paul, a lawyer, who does have that sexual interest in Die as he tries to help Steve through his legal problems. The second and more important is Kyla, who lives across the street with her husband Patrick and their adolescent daughter, they who are in transit in their life to wherever Patrick's job will take them. Kyla is a high school teacher on sabbatical as she deals with her own emotional issues, which are manifested in stuttering whenever she feels incapable of dealing with her life. Kyla may find that she needs the Després as much as they need her.

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Screenplay

Cast

Anne Dorval
Anne Dorval
Diane 'Die' Després
Antoine Olivier Pilon
Antoine Olivier Pilon
Steve O'Connor Després
Suzanne Clément
Suzanne Clément
Kyla
Patrick Huard
Patrick Huard
Paul
Alexandre Goyette
Alexandre Goyette
Patrick
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Michèle Lituac
Directrice du centre correctionnel
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Viviane Pacal
Marthe
Natalie Hamel-Roy
Natalie Hamel-Roy
Natacha
Isabelle Nélisse
Isabelle Nélisse
Fille de Kyla
Ted Pluviose
Ted Pluviose
Chauffeur de taxi
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Noia
Composer
André Turpin
André Turpin
Cinematographer

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Official US Trailer
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Official US Trailer
Official Movie Trailer
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Official Movie Trailer
Clip "You're just like your father!"
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Clip "You're just like your father!"
Clip "You never get bored with Steve"
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Clip "You never get bored with Steve"
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Mommy Film Independent Q&A Highlights
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Mommy Film Independent Q&A Highlights
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