Mother, May I? (2023) on Netflix
In a therapy game, Emmett and Anya imitate each other to share their feelings. He takes her to the house inherited from his mother, and Anya begins acting like her.
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- Netflix3.3/5
- IMDb5.0/102,936 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes83%
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Plot summary
Emmett and Anya are engaged. In a game of therapy they play together, each of them takes the other's part so that the two can share their feelings. Emmett's mother has recently died, and he has inherited her house. He means to sell the property, and he resented the woman, from whom he was estranged. He takes Anya to the house. Anya never met his mother. There, Anya begins behaving like her, taking on the persona of the dead woman. Nothing explains the change. For Emmett, the game of therapy turns nightmarish, with his own partner in the role of his mother.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Mother, May I? (2023)
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- Most of the cast and crew of Mother, May I?, 12 people on any given day, lived in the rented farmhouse for the whole shoot to avoid a COVID shutdown, and stars Holland Roden and Kyle Gallner slept in their characters' rooms.
- Adamant that Mother, May I? be shot on location in upstate New York, Holland Roden searched thousands of houses across five states on AirBnB; director Laurence Vannicelli found the converted dairy barn that became the film's principal location.
- Writer-director Laurence Vannicelli and producer Daisy Long conceived Mother, May I? during the COVID-19 pandemic while brainstorming a small-cast, performance-driven project; the two later married.
