Mommy

Mommy

Loving people doesn't save them.

2014138 min8.2 / 10

An intimate, psychologically complex portrait of a fractured mother-son bond that explores love's inability to heal deep trauma and dysfunction.

A peculiar neighbor offers hope to a recent widow who is struggling to raise a teenager who is unpredictable and, sometimes, violent.

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