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  • 2024
  • UTA Independent Film Group
  • 1 h 36 m
  • 2024
  • UTA Independent Film Group
  • 1 h 36 m

Summary The members of a dysfunctional family find themselves mysteriously trapped in an antiquated furniture store when their elderly matriarch (Ellen Burstyn) suddenly refuses to get up from one of the display couches. Reluctantly assembled, her three estranged children – David (Ewan McGregor), Gruffudd (Rhys Ifans), and Linda (Lara Flynn Boyl...

Directed By: Niclas Larsson

Written By: Niclas Larsson

In Theaters Now
  • 2024
  • UTA Independent Film Group
  • 1 h 36 m
  • 2024
  • UTA Independent Film Group
  • 1 h 36 m

Mother, Couch

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary The members of a dysfunctional family find themselves mysteriously trapped in an antiquated furniture store when their elderly matriarch (Ellen Burstyn) suddenly refuses to get up from one of the display couches. Reluctantly assembled, her three estranged children – David (Ewan McGregor), Gruffudd (Rhys Ifans), and Linda (Lara Flynn Boyl...

Directed By: Niclas Larsson

Written By: Niclas Larsson

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
59
71% Positive
5 Reviews
14% Mixed
1 Review
14% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
59
71% Positive
5 Reviews
14% Mixed
1 Review
14% Negative
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83
Jul 15, 2024
Mother, Couch is a delightful, sometimes hard-hitting family drama that will stay with you for a long time after you watch.
By Charles Barfield FULL REVIEW
80
Jul 15, 2024
From start to finish, it’s an original, wholly unpredictable experience. It’s also, by turns, gripping, provocative, head-scratching and disturbing, and is likely to divide viewers with its dreamlike ambitions and metaphorical musings.
By Gary Goldstein FULL REVIEW
80
Jul 2, 2024
Of course, we have the magical Mr. McGregor, turning in a nuanced performance that gets into some very raw territory. I knew he had a range, but the depth McGregor travels here is impressive in its specificity.
By Michael Talbot-Haynes FULL REVIEW
63
Jun 30, 2024
Other than a sort of wistful quirkiness, it’s not clear what Mother, Couch gains by skewing away from a more straightforward, streamlined family drama.
By William Repass FULL REVIEW
63
Jun 27, 2024
For anybody who relishes performance over “the puzzle,” who gets a charge out of seeing screen legends make Ewan McGregor sweat, Mother, Couch! is worth getting off the sofa for.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
50
Jul 5, 2024
Burstyn’s character, which the actor plays with her customary expertise, is so utterly disagreeable that viewing the picture is a mostly anxious experience with not much of a reward at the end, which shifts to magic realist mode for lack of anywhere better to go.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
38
Jul 5, 2024
After the forced bursts of energy, nightmarish dream sequences, and a strained bit of self-absolution recede, you soon realize that writer/director Niclas Larsson’s “Mother, Couch,” a morose, nonsensical family drama is about as interesting as the lint between the cushions.
By Robert Daniels FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Fat City, Film i Väst, Lyrical Media, Snowglobe Films
Release Date Jul 5, 2024
Duration 1 h 36 m
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Awards

Göteborg Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
San Sebastián International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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