Mother's Day - mother is back

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Movie
German title Mother's Day - mother is back
Original title Mother's Day
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2010
length 112 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Darren Lynn Bousman
script Scott Milam
production Anchor Bay Films
music Bobby Johnstone
camera Joseph White
cut Hunter M. Via
occupation

Mother's Day is an American horror film directed by Darren Lynn Bousman. The film sees itself as a remake of Charles Kaufman's film Mother's Day from 1980, but has little in common with it apart from the names of the mother's three sons.

action

In the opening sequence, a woman breaks into an infant station and steals a baby. When a security guard arrives, he is murdered from behind. In the main plot, three brothers flee to their mother's house after a bank robbery, one of them shot, not knowing that she has not lived there recently. Your accomplice left with the money. The new owner couple of the house celebrates the birthday party of the host Daniel Sohapi with friends. The criminals bring them under their control. The mother of the three criminals arrives with her daughter and takes command. It's about getting out of the country right away. The gangster family immediately needs $ 10,000 to pay an escape agent. The sons had previously sent their mother cash to the house when the new owners were already living there; Despite the torture of the master of the house, the mother does not manage to find out the place of storage. The money is now to be obtained using the hostages' bank cards. The hostage Melissa is shot while trying to escape.

The landlady Beth Sohapi is sent to the ATM with one of the sons. On the way, Melissa's body is thrown into a dumpster. At the ATM, two eyewitnesses come under the control of the criminal, he throws them a knife and promises to stay alive to the person who stabs the other. When one of them does this and runs away, he shoots her. The money withdrawn in the meantime is not enough. More money is to be fetched from the safe in the laundry of another hostage. In addition to the safe combination, Beth also learns the location of her pistol on her cell phone. She manages to unobtrusively take out the weapon and briefly call Ike, but he reaches for the weapon and a scuffle ensues, at the end of which Beth is unarmed and has to flee. She can still call the emergency number with a cell phone, but is put on hold and is caught again. The dumpster is emptied, the garbage collectors realize that the supposed corpse is still alive and take it to a hospital. In the operating room she can write a message on a board, the doctors call the police.

In the house, a doctor among the hostages takes care of the man who was shot, he also reveals that the mother keeps her children dependent with lies and pathological authority and that it is not her real, but stolen children. He is later shot by his patient. In the course of escape attempts and conflicts with the gangsters all male hostages and two of the three “sons” of the criminal perish. In addition, a policeman is shot dead after inspecting the criminal's car on the fundraising tour. In the course of the drama, there were also various brutal abuse and conflicts between the hostages. It turns out that Daniel had an affair with another hostage, Beth is pregnant, knew about Daniel's affair and kept the criminals' money hidden so that they could soon run away with their child. Even before that, the whole plot is pervaded by selfishness and a lack of solidarity among the hostages: Beth betrays the friends at the beginning because she is afraid of being shot; for the same reason Daniel does not reveal himself to an approaching police officer (who is later shot at a roadside check); in addition, he forcibly brought another hostage back into the house who had already managed to escape.

After a final fight with Beth, the "mother" sets fire to the house and is then knocked down by Beth. Only Beth and one other woman can leave the house in time, but the emergency services that have arrived recover another surviving person, hidden in a blanket. In the final sequence, the heavily pregnant Beth is driven by the surviving friends to the same maternity ward as in the opening scene, where her baby is stolen and in a final shot the "mother" of the criminal holds it in the mobile home as "my baby" in her arms, accompanied by a recovered "son" and the "daughter".

criticism

The lexicon of the international film judged: “A tightly staged psychological thriller with convincing characters, reminiscent of William Wyler's classic On a Day Like Any Other , but admittedly takes a much tougher pace.”

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mother's Day - Mother is back. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used