MOTHER, COUCH
Genre
Dark Comedy
Running time
96 minutes
Year
2023
Language
English
Country
United States of America (USA)
Director
Niclas Larsson
Bio
Producer
Sara Murphy, Alex Black, Ella Bishop, Pau Suris
Cast
Ewan Mcgregor, Rhys Ifans, Taylor Russel, Ellen Burstyn, Lake Bell, Lara Flynn Boyle, F . Murray Abraham
Scriptwriter
Niclas Larsson
An all-star cast of troubled middle-aged siblings – Ewan McGregor, Rhys Ifans and Lara Flynn Boyle – converge on a furniture store where their mother, played by a superbly irascible Ellen Burstyn, refuses to get off a green display couch. Younger son David (McGregor) habitually takes responsibility for her, but he is crumbling under pressure; elder son Gruffudd (Ifans) is primarily focused on making a grotesque play for the sweet young store assistant (Taylor Russell) and chain-smoking daughter Linda (Boyle) clearly can’t be bothered with any of them. From this starting point in recognisable family dysfunction, Larsson’s film gathers speed as it heads towards a wildly surreal finale nobody – least of all this muddled family – could have expected.
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