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Mommy full movie is released on Oct 08, 2014. Watch Mommy online - the French Drama movie from Canada , which has achieved a worldwide gross of $13,156,856. Mommy is directed by Xavier Dolan and created by Xavier Dolan with Anne Dorval and Suzanne Clément. Mommy is available online on Apple iTunes and Amazon Video.

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.

As know as:

Mamytė, Mamica, Māmiņa, Мамочка, Mommy/マミー

Release Date:

Jan 23, 2015

Release Date (Streaming):

Mar 17, 2015

Countries:

Canada

Language:

French, English

Stream Service:

Roadside Attractions

Production Companies:

Les Films Seville, Metafilms, Sons of Manual

Official Site:

Official site

Gross worldwide:

$13,156,856

Taglines:

"We still love each other, right?" - "That's we're best at, buddy."

Reviews

Philippa Hawker
The Age (Australia)
The cinematic frame might have contracted, but there's a kind of ferocious compassion in Dolan's vision, and its embrace is startlingly wide.
by rottentomatoes, Apr 09, 2015
Sandra Hall
Sydney Morning Herald
Dolan loves close-ups and he gives his actors every chance to demonstrate their talent for ringing the emotional changes in a single take.
by rottentomatoes, Apr 09, 2015
Mark Kermode
Observer (UK)
Dorval and Clément are both exceptional, their brilliantly controlled performances contrasting with the explosive energy of rising star Pilon, who looks set to burst out of the screen and into the auditorium.
by rottentomatoes, Mar 22, 2015

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