The Good Mother

The Good Mother

Can a court determine how we should live, how we should love, how we should raise our children? Now Anna must prove that she is the Good Mother.

1988104 min5.7 / 10

A morally complex custody drama that pits a mother's right to personal freedom and romantic fulfillment against societal judgment and legal scrutiny of her parenting.

After finding a sexually liberated boyfriend, a divorced woman gets sued over daughter's custody, by her ex, who claims that her lover has a bad influence on the kid.

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