Suze (2023)

Directed by

Dane Clark

Genre

comedy, drama

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 33m

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman copes with her daughter leaving for college by forming an unexpected bond with her daughter's ex-boyfriend, a young man she never liked before. She becomes a motherly figure to him, filling the void in her own life.

quirkywarmbittersweetgentlecharacter-drivenunderstatedtender

What happens

Suze is a 2023 Canadian comedy-drama film, written and directed by Dane Clark and Linsey Stewart. The film stars Michaela Watkins as Suze, a woman whose feelings of empty nest syndrome after her daughter Brooke (Sara Waisglass) moves away to attend university lead her to become a doting mother figure to Brooke's ex-boyfriend Gage (Charlie Gillespie) even though she never liked him at all when he and Brooke were dating. The film entered production in fall 2022 in Hamilton, Ontario. The film premiered at the Atlantic International Film Festival on September 16, 2023, and was screened at the 2023 Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival, and the 2023 Calgary International Film Festival. It was released theatrically by Tribeca Films in the U.S. in February 2025. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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