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Run (2020)

Run poster
Directed by
Aneesh Chaganty
Genre
drama film, horror film, thriller film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 30m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
7.2 of 10 from 2,917 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A disabled teenager living with her mother starts to uncover disturbing evidence that her mother may be hiding something dangerous about her past and health. As she investigates, she must find a way to escape her own home and the person she trusts most.

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What happens

Run (referred to on-screen as Run.) is a 2020 American psychological horror thriller film directed by Aneesh Chaganty, and written by Chaganty and Sev Ohanian. The film stars Kiera Allen as disabled teenager Chloe Sherman, who begins to suspect that her mother, Diane (Sarah Paulson), has been keeping a dark secret about her upbringing. The film has connections to other films by Chaganty and Ohanian and is the second installment in the filmmaking duo's Searching film series. Run was released in the United States via streaming on November 20, 2020, on Hulu, and was released in other territories both theatrically and through streaming by Lionsgate International and by Netflix on April 2, 2021. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and became Hulu's most successful original film upon its release. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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