You Are Not My Mother (2021)

Directed by

Kate Dolan

Genre

horror film

Country

Ireland

Runtime

1h 33m

Rated

R

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 139 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman named Char lives with her grandmother Rita in Dublin. After her mother Angela goes missing and then returns acting strangely, Char begins to suspect that something is deeply wrong.

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What happens

You Are Not My Mother is a 2021 Irish psychological horror film written and directed by Kate Dolan. The film stars Hazel Doupe as Char, a young woman at odds with her grandmother Rita (Ingrid Craigie) after her mother Angela (Carolyn Bracken) briefly goes missing, only to return soon afterward with a radically changed personality. The film premiered in the Midnight Madness stream at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival, where it was named first runner up for the People's Choice Award: Midnight Madness. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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