Stage Mother

"Sex, drag and rock & roll"

2020 1h 33m EN

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6.2

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62%

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METACRITIC

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6.6

IMDB

★6.2TMDB · 80🍅62%Rotten Tomatoes●41Metacritic★6.6IMDB · 3,151

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Synopsis

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A conservative church-choir director moves from Texas to San Francisco to run her deceased gay son's drag club.

“Sex, drag and rock & roll”

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Cast

Jacki Weaver
Maybelline Metcalf
Lucy Liu
Sienna
Adrian Grenier
Nathan
Mya Taylor
Cherry
Allister MacDonald
Joan
Anthony Skordi
August
Oscar Moreno
Tequila
Jackie Beat
Dusty Muffin

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Thom Fitzgerald
Writers: Brad Hennig
Languages: English
Countries: Canada

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ERA

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Released 6 years ago.

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ERA

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Directed by Thom Fitzgerald, shot by Thomas M. Harting. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Warren Robert. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Yaniv Dabach shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Jacki Weaver and Lucy Liu and Adrian Grenier carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Sex, drag and rock & roll".

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt8364138 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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8 / 8

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Only 80 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Thom Fitzgerald directs. Thomas M. Harting behind the camera. Warren Robert scores. Yaniv Dabach cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Canada. Dialogue in English.

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Things worth knowing

1Released 6 years ago.
2Directed by Thom Fitzgerald, shot by Thomas M. Harting. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
3Original score by Warren Robert. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
4Editor Yaniv Dabach shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
5Jacki Weaver and Lucy Liu and Adrian Grenier carry the top of the cast.
6Marketing tagline: "Sex, drag and rock & roll".
7IMDB entry: tt8364138 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
8Only 80 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Cinematography: Thomas M. Harting
Original score: Warren Robert
Editing: Yaniv Dabach
Production design: Michael Pierson
Costume design: James A. Worthen
Makeup / hair: Roxanne Rizzo
VFX supervisor: Jake Akuna
Sound: David Barber
Runtime: 93 min · 1h 33m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Stage Mother (2020)
Rotten Tomatoes: 62% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 41/100
IMDB rating: 6.6/10 · 3,151 votes
MPAA: R

Awards

6 wins & 4 nominations

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CinemaSerf2022-03-27
★ 6/10
Jacki Weaver is "Maybeline", a pretty conservative Texan woman who discovers that her estranged, gay, son has died of an overdose in San Francisco. Despite the protestations of her husband "Jeb" she heads off to the funeral and begins to discover just how ("Ricky"), long-term boyfriend "Nathan" (Adrian Grenier) and best friend "Sienna" (Lucy Liu) have been living their lives - and of how he and "Nathan" had been running their own drag club. Initially she faces scepticism and hostility from all but "Sienna" - who sees an opportunity for a free babysitter - particularly as it transpires that her son had no will and so everything he had now belongs to her. Her husband just wants to sell it all, but she decides to try and make a go of it; and to make friends with the folks her son loved. It's a kindly, feel-good film with a gentle, if slightly sweet, storyline peppered with some good old drag innuendo and cattiness. The songs are a bit on the cheesy side, but that doesn't really matter. Essentially, this is a film about regret and having the balls to do something about it - part of her determination to make a success of the club and of the acts is driven by guilt, but much of it is also driven by her own pent-up frustrations having been stuck in a banal marriage that had managed to suffocate much of the personality in her that her late son had managed to manifest in his own life. It's not a great film, at times the production borders on the amateur, but Liu and Weaver deliver engaging characters quite well and I rather enjoyed it.

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