What is Mommy about?
A peculiar neighbor offers hope to a recent widow who is struggling to raise a teenager who is unpredictable and, sometimes, violent.
Does it have a happy ending? (spoiler-safe)
It leaves the ending open to interpretation.
Mommy (2014)
A grieving mother navigates her volatile son's outbursts while a new friend offers a fragile sense of hope.
Intimate and bleak. A full-attention watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it is devastating.
Streaming on Tubi (free).
Mommy parents guide
Nothing past what an R promises: some innuendo or implied sex and strong violence.
- Scare
- Not scary
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- No gore
- Violence
- Strong violence
- Violence is frequent or intense.
- Sex and nudity
- Mild
- Mild means innuendo, or sex implied off screen, with no nudity.
- Language
- Strong
- Frequent strong profanity or slurs.
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Three questions
- How gory is Mommy?
- No gore and strong violence.
- What is Mommy rated, and is it OK for kids?
- No. It is rated R, with strong violence and frequent strong language.
Cast and crew
Directed byXavier Dolan
StarringAnne Dorval, Suzanne Clément, Antoine Olivier Pilon, Patrick Huard, Alexandre Goyette, Michèle Lituac
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Mommy is on our Coming of age, French, Tubi, Drama on Tubi and Foreign-language lists.
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