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Mommy

  • 20142014
  • RR
  • 2h 19m
IMDb RATING
8.0/10
56K
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POPULARITY
2,982
1,004
Mommy (2014)
A widowed single mother, raising her violent son alone, finds new hope when a mysterious neighbor inserts herself into their household.
Play trailer2:31
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A widowed single mother, raising her violent son alone, finds new hope when a mysterious neighbor inserts herself into their household.A widowed single mother, raising her violent son alone, finds new hope when a mysterious neighbor inserts herself into their household.A widowed single mother, raising her violent son alone, finds new hope when a mysterious neighbor inserts herself into their household.
IMDb RATING
8.0/10
56K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
2,982
1,004
  • Director
    • Xavier Dolan
  • Writer
    • Xavier Dolan(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Anne Dorval
    • Antoine Olivier Pilon
    • Suzanne Clément
Top credits
  • Director
    • Xavier Dolan
  • Writer
    • Xavier Dolan(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Anne Dorval
    • Antoine Olivier Pilon
    • Suzanne Clément
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 100User reviews
    • 261Critic reviews
    • 74Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 54 wins & 66 nominations

    Videos5

    Official Trailer
    Trailer 2:31
    Official Trailer
    International Trailer
    Trailer 3:13
    International Trailer
    Streaming Passport to Canada
    Clip 6:08
    Streaming Passport to Canada
    Cake Time
    Clip 1:38
    Cake Time
    We Good
    Clip 0:52
    We Good

    Photos149

    Anne Dorval in Mommy (2014)
    Anne Dorval and Antoine Olivier Pilon in Mommy (2014)
    Anne Dorval and Antoine Olivier Pilon in Mommy (2014)
    Anne Dorval and Antoine Olivier Pilon in Mommy (2014)
    Suzanne Clément in Mommy (2014)
    Antoine Olivier Pilon in Mommy (2014)
    Anne Dorval in Mommy (2014)
    Karine Vanasse at an event for Mommy (2014)
    Xavier Dolan at an event for Mommy (2014)
    Xavier Dolan at an event for Mommy (2014)
    Xavier Dolan, Nancy Grant, and Clare Stewart at an event for Mommy (2014)
    Xavier Dolan and Nancy Grant at an event for Mommy (2014)

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    Anne Dorval
    Anne Dorval
    • Diane 'Die' Desprésas Diane 'Die' Després
    Antoine Olivier Pilon
    Antoine Olivier Pilon
    • Steve O'Connor Desprésas Steve O'Connor Després
    Suzanne Clément
    Suzanne Clément
    • Kylaas Kyla
    Patrick Huard
    Patrick Huard
    • Paulas Paul
    Alexandre Goyette
    Alexandre Goyette
    • Patrickas Patrick
    Michèle Lituac
    • Directrice du centre correctionnelas Directrice du centre correctionnel
    Viviane Pascal
    • Martheas Marthe
    • (as Viviane Pacal)
    Natalie Hamel-Roy
    Natalie Hamel-Roy
    • Natachaas Natacha
    Isabelle Nélisse
    Isabelle Nélisse
    • Fille de Kylaas Fille de Kyla
    Ted Pluviose
    Ted Pluviose
    • Chauffeur de taxias Chauffeur de taxi
    Pierre-Yves Cardinal
    Pierre-Yves Cardinal
    • Gardien de sécurité #1as Gardien de sécurité #1
    Reda Guerinik
    Reda Guerinik
    • Gardes de securiteas Gardes de securite
    Justin Laramée
    Justin Laramée
    • Gardes de securiteas Gardes de securite
    Sabrina Bisson
    • DJ Karaokeas DJ Karaoke
    Huguette Gervais
    • Calssiere librairieas Calssiere librairie
    Vincent Fafard
    Vincent Fafard
    • Joueur de billardas Joueur de billard
    Jean-Philippe Baril-Guérard
    Jean-Philippe Baril-Guérard
    • Joueur de billardas Joueur de billard
    Dominic Desnoyers
    • Joueur de billardas Joueur de billard
    • Director
      • Xavier Dolan
    • Writer
      • Xavier Dolan(screenplay)
    • All cast & crew
    • See more cast details at IMDbPro

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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Most of the film is presented in a 1:1 aspect ratio, where the "viewing area" of the screen is a perfect square.
    • Quotes

      Steve Després: We still love each other, right?

      Diane 'Die' Després: That's what we're best at, buddy.

    • Connections
      Featured in WatchMojo: Top 10 Movies by Canadian Directors (2016)
    • Soundtracks
      Childhood
      Written and performed Craig Armstrong

    User reviews100

    Review
    Top review
    A whirlwind of emotion: Dolan's most affecting film
    "What does anyone want but to feel a little more free." Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

    Mommy is a film about extraordinary, ordinary people. Individual scenes may be small and everyday, but what Mommy has to say is bigger, deeper: about life itself. The film reminded me of the above quote and freedom and our quest for it is the biggest thing Mommy has to talk about for me. It's about this and also about love and family and how those closest to us are so entwined they're not entirely separate beings to us. It's easily Dolan's most affecting work to date because within it every scene stems from and is full of emotion and conveys this to the audience.

    In fact the film is so filled with emotion it is hard to remember the extremes it reached. It is so devastating by the end that I had to really think back to recall how I'd laughed out loud earlier on. There is a lot of humour in the film (in its observation of characters and what they say and do, but the time that got me most of all was when two characters laugh so hysterically you can't help but laughing out loud too – there's a real danger of us all descending into uncontrollable laughter alongside the ladies on screen!) which made me glad to watch it in a full cinema where the reaction could be heard from the audience. Despite this, by the end Dolan puts you through the wringer, and all that is left is our heartbreak for his characters and that that quest could never be.

    Dolan's characters, for me are always his greatest strength. Not so much the specifics of them (though I must say these three are unforgettable in that sense!) but how they work. Since his first film, he has managed to express often deep or complex aspects about who his characters (and thus, who we all!) are inside in a way where I feel it. It isn't a thing that is easy to talk about because for me Dolan can tap into the kind of things the people in his films are and feel and do that often defy rational logic but yet which we all understand totally. Wow, confusing, much?

    Anyway, here too, Die, Steve and Kyla (all exceptionally portrayed) are the heart of the film. They all feel like real people and despite the 2.5 hour running time, somehow at the end of the film you feel they've been snatched away from you. All actors can convey so much in an expression or action that you feel a world of their emotion and understand things about them without them needing to be said.

    The three main characters in the film all become tied to each other in a way where they're kind of enmeshed. This is most true with Steve and Die who I feel are not entirely two separate people. They are Son and Mother, but more than this – they are man and wife, lovers, little kids – sister and brother, he's prince to her queen and Steve can be the father and Die the child. He is she and she is he and this is a bond that is wrapped up in who these people are. This makes the love Dolan's familial pairings have for each other unbreakable. Steve and Die fiercely are protective of each other: above all else. Yet in this, as in Dolan's other films, people entwined together struggle to exist almost as one being when despite how interwoven they are, they are individuals too. How to be separate, yet one? Dolan's characters push each other away and pull each other tight but they can never be entirely individual, nor can they escape each other. This is for me the true link between all of Dolan's films thus far.

    I just want to say something briefly about the very start to illustrate the detail I felt in the film, without describing every detail which would sound trite. Though we'll come to know Die, Mommy of the title as many things, here we are first introduced to her as Mommy: she is shown in a visual sense as the roots, the trunk of the family tree.

    I guess I should talk about the fact that the film is shot in a square of screen and to be honest I barely noticed it until a truly glorious moment when the screen opens up as a character exclaims their freedom and we see our three leads feeling free fleetingly. It gave me chills. After this moment, when the screen closes again – now you feel what at least I hadn't really noticed until then – that this aspect ratio works as a visual representation of how trapped these characters are. The screen closes in at a time that truly illustrates this and from then on the black sides feel as though they're kind of that-which-will-remain- forever-unreachable. The only time the screen expands again attests to this for it is a character's dream of the future.

    Mommy is pitched in an ordinary world, but at extremes of emotion, but at the core there is always honesty in what it says and it's this that for me makes Dolan a great filmmaker. Dolan gets people and when you understand people enough to not just make a film in which you care about the characters, but to make a film where no matter the character, their experiences resonate: then, you have something magic.

    "What does anyone want but to feel a little more free." I quoted at the start. Though Mommy wends through humour to ultimate heartbreak, for moments in it its characters are free and perhaps through this as we escape in its world, it allows us to feel a little more free also?
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • October 8, 2014 (Belgium)
    • Country of origin
      • Canada
    • Official sites
      • Official site
      • Official site (Japan)
    • Languages
      • French
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Мамочка
    • Filming locations
      • Montréal, Québec, Canada
    • Production companies
      • Les Films Seville
      • Metafilms
      • Sons of Manual
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $3,494,070
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $473,882
      • Sep 21, 2014
    • Gross worldwide
      • $13,156,856
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      2 hours 19 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1:1

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