Mama (2013 film)
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| Directed by | Andrés Muschietti |
| Produced by | J. Miles Dale Bárbara Muschietti |
| Screenplay by |
Neil Cross Andrés Muschietti Bárbara Muschietti |
| Story by | Andrés Muschietti Bárbara Muschietti |
| Based on |
Mamá by Andrés Muschietti |
| Starring |
Jessica Chastain Nikolaj Coster-Waldau |
| Music by | Fernando Velázquez |
| Cinematography | Antonio Riestra |
| Edited by | Michelle Conroi |
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Toma 78
De Milo Productions |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time
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100 minutes |
| Country | Spain |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $15 million |
| Box office | $146.4 million |
Mama is a 2013 English-language Spanishsupernatural horror film directed and co-written by Andrés Muschietti and based on his 2008 Argentine short film Mamá. The film stars Jessica Chastain and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and is produced by Zandy Federico and co-writer Bárbara Muschietti, with Guillermo del Toro serving as executive producer.
The film deals with the story of two young girls abandoned in a forest cabin, fostered by an unknown entity that they fondly call "Mama", which eventually follows them to their new suburban home after their uncle retrieves them. Originally set for an October 2012 release, it was released in theaters on 18 January 2013. The movie was remade in Tamil under the title Mooch.
Distraught after losing his fortune in the 2008 financial crisis, stockbroker Jeffrey Desange kills his business partners and estranged wife before taking his children, three-year-old Victoria and one-year-old Lilly, away from home. Driving dangerously fast on a snowy road, Jeffrey loses control and the car slides down the mountain, ramming into the woods. Surviving, he takes the children into an abandoned cabin. Planning to kill his daughters and commit suicide, he holds a gun to Victoria's head, but a shadowy figure kills him. The girls, huddled by the fireside, are tossed a cherry by the mysterious figure.
Five years later, a rescue party, sponsored by Jeffrey's identical twin brother Lucas, finds Victoria and Lilly alive, but in a feral state after years of isolation. The girls are put in a welfare clinic under the psychiatric care of Dr. Gerald Dreyfuss. They make reference to "Mama", a maternal protector figure. The girls are initially hostile to Lucas but Victoria recognizes him after he gives her a pair of glasses and she can see him properly. Dreyfuss agrees to support Lucas and his girlfriend Annabel's custody claim against the girls' maternal great-aunt, Jean Podolski. Victoria acclimates quickly to domestic life while Lilly retains much of her feralness (language regression, growling, laying on the floor), not being used to being around people.
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