The Good Mother

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The Good Mother

R

2023

1h 29m

Mystery & Thriller

Crime

Drama

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From the three-time Academy Award®-nominated producer of The Wolf of Wall Street, The Good Mother follows journalist Marissa Bennings who, after the murder of her estranged son, forms an unlikely alliance with his pregnant girlfriend Paige to track down the killers. Together they confront a world of corruption and drugs in the seedy underbelly of a small city in upstate New York. As they get closer to the truth, they unearth an even darker secret. Starring two-time Academy Award®-winner Hilary Swank, Olivia Cooke and Jack Reynor.

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Critics Consensus

The Good Mother has dramatic potential, a talented cast, and deals with important subjects -- but none of that's enough to compensate for the movie's drearily underwhelming story.

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Rex Reed

Observer

10/20/2023

2.5/4

Not a bad film, just a dull and inconsequential one. here today and gone tomorrow.

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Tim Cogshell

FilmWeek (LAist)

10/03/2023

It explains a lot to you, and it does in fact have this twist -- and it's going to do anything it needs to do to get there.

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Katie Rife

RogerEbert.com

09/01/2023

2/4

The Good Mother starts with a gunshot and ends with a whimper.

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Paula Vázquez Prieto

La Nación (Argentina)

03/28/2024

2/5

The film stumbles into a ditch of absurd twists, forgetting characters that seemed important, and manipulating motivations and coincidences, all to build an intrigue that turns out to be nothing more than a ruse. [Full review in Spanish]

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Pete Vonder Haar

Houston Press

01/25/2024

1/5

Remind me; which one is the "good" mother, exactly? Marissa is still wallowing in widowhood and is largely distant from her kids when Michael gets killed, while Paige is doing her best to pick up the pieces and get to the bottom of his murder.

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Nick Rogers

Midwest Film Journal

11/01/2023

3/5

The whodunit is too simple but Hilary Swank delivers assured notes of anxiety, the cinematography is great, and the script underscores the opportunity costs of chasing clicks, connecting a crumbling infrastructure of information gathering to civic health.

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John

09/08/2023

Intense and multi layered characters. Hillary Swank was great as usual.

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Mr. Hollywood

09/08/2023

Predictable. Nothing new. It would have been ok had it not been so bland. So so bland.

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Sandy

09/07/2023

Story was slow and convoluted. Boring! Im a fan of Hilary Swank but this is not good.

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Kent

09/07/2023

Tough subject material, great acting!

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Patricia P

09/06/2023

Great start to no ending hated it.

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Jbimp

09/05/2023

Interesting story. Kept me thinking. Kind of depressing.

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From the three-time Academy Award®-nominated producer of The Wolf of Wall Street, The Good Mother follows journalist Marissa Bennings who, after the murder of her estranged son, forms an unlikely alliance with his pregnant girlfriend Paige to track down the killers. Together they confront a world of corruption and drugs in the seedy underbelly of a small city in upstate New York. As they get closer to the truth, they unearth an even darker secret. Starring two-time Academy Award®-winner Hilary Swank, Olivia Cooke and Jack Reynor.

Director: Miles Joris-Peyrafitte
Producer: Shaun Sanghani, Siena Oberman, Emma Tillinger Koskoff
Screenwriter: Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, Madison Harrison
Distributor: Vertical
Production Co: SSS Entertainment, Artemis Pictures
Rating: R (Language Throughout|Drug Material|Some Violent Content)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 1, 2023, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 19, 2023
Box Office (Gross USA): $367.0K
Runtime: 1h 29m