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  • 2023
  • R
  • Vertical Entertainment
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2023
  • R
  • Vertical Entertainment
  • 1 h 30 m

Summary After the murder of her estranged son, journalist Marissa Bennings (Hilary Swank) forms an unlikely alliance with his pregnant girlfriend Paige (Olivia Cooke) to track down the killers. Together they confront a world of corruption and drugs in the seedy underbelly of a small city in upstate New York. As they get closer to the truth, they...

Written By: Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, Madison Harrison

  • 2023
  • R
  • Vertical Entertainment
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2023
  • R
  • Vertical Entertainment
  • 1 h 30 m

The Good Mother

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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Summary After the murder of her estranged son, journalist Marissa Bennings (Hilary Swank) forms an unlikely alliance with his pregnant girlfriend Paige (Olivia Cooke) to track down the killers. Together they confront a world of corruption and drugs in the seedy underbelly of a small city in upstate New York. As they get closer to the truth, they...

Written By: Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, Madison Harrison

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Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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89
Aug 31, 2023
Much as he did with his 2016 feature debut (at the age of 23), the love-triangle drama As You Are, Joris-Peyrafitte tells this story with welcome subtlety and a keen attenuation to his actors.
By Josh Kupecki FULL REVIEW
63
Sep 1, 2023
Not a bad film, just a dull and inconsequential one. here today and gone tomorrow.
By Rex Reed FULL REVIEW
50
Sep 1, 2023
As it is, The Good Mother starts with a gunshot and ends with a whimper.
By Katie Rife FULL REVIEW
50
Aug 30, 2023
The plot, in which Swank is given little more to do than guzzle Costco-size bottles of liquor and mope, proceeds in somewhat somnambulist fashion, generating surprisingly little suspense even when Paige confronts a suspect whose identity has been telegraphed throughout the film. This comes as a disappointment, at least for viewers who have watched a movie or two before.
By Michael O'Sullivan FULL REVIEW
50
Aug 30, 2023
A disappointing and murky mess of a film that feels like an uncompleted project and leaves the viewer frustrated, despite the gritty visuals and a game lead performance by two-time Academy Award winner Hilary Swank.
By Richard Roeper FULL REVIEW
38
Sep 7, 2023
There are good things about it, but nothing great and nothing all that worthy of our attention. But the cast battles any low expectations it might create and gives the viewer something to hang onto.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
15
Sep 1, 2023
Hilary Swank looks like she’d rather be anywhere else than starring as a journalist and grief-stricken mother in this overblown, undercooked drug drama about America’s opioid crisis that makes its scant running time of 89 minutes feel like a torturous eternity.
By Peter Travers FULL REVIEW

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Production Company SSS Entertainment, Artemis, Priority Pictures, SSS Film Capital, Votiv Films
Release Date Sep 1, 2023
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating R
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