The Truth About Emanuel (2013) on Netflix
Seventeen-year-old Emanuel blames herself for her mother's death in childbirth. When her new neighbor Linda, who resembles her dead mother, needs a babysitter, Emanuel takes the job.
- Netflix2.8/5
- IMDb6.0/1010,214 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes37%
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Plot summary
Emanuel is seventeen and lives in Los Angeles with her father Dennis and her stepmother Janice, with whom she does not get along. She skipped college and works at a drugstore beside her colleague Arthur. On the train to work she flirts with a teenager named Claude. She carries guilt over her mother, who died giving birth to her. Linda moves in next door and looks like Emanuel's mother. Linda asks Emanuel to babysit her newborn, Chloe, and Emanuel accepts, though she never sees the sleeping baby. Emanuel and Linda grow close, and Emanuel spends her free time at Linda's house helping with Chloe.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Truth About Emanuel (2013)
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- In January 2020, writer-director Francesca Gregorini sued Apple TV+ and the makers of the series Servant, alleging it was a "brazen copy" of The Truth About Emanuel and accusing them of sexism; creator Tony Basgallop and producer M. Night Shyamalan said neither had seen her film.
- Rooney Mara was set to play Emanuel, the title character of The Truth About Emanuel, before Kaya Scodelario replaced her as the lead.
- A federal judge threw out Francesca Gregorini's copyright lawsuit against Apple and M. Night Shyamalan in May 2020, then ordered her to pay the defendants' attorneys' fees of $162,467.30, deriding her "scattered similarities" claims.
