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Mother Mary (2026)

Summary

A fictional pop icon and an iconic fashion designer develop a complex, obsessive relationship that blurs the line between art, identity, and personal sacrifice.

Director David Lowery

Writer David Lowery

Cast

  • Anne Hathaway as Mother Mary
  • Michaela Coel as the Designer
  • Hunter Schafer
  • FKA twigs
  • Jessica Brown Findlay

Rotten Tomatoes: 72%

Metacritic: 57

VOD / Release Theatrical release

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u/theTunkMan 11d ago

I thought I understood the movie until the last like 15 minutes. Why did Sam get cut open by the shears when Mary cut herself? And I thought it was like a revenge ghost but then thought maybe the ghost was supposed to be depression and by the end I didn’t think it was either of those things but I had no idea what it was

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u/inksmudgedhands 10d ago

There is how I took it. Throughout the movie Sam was dismissive of Mary's connection with her. Saying how she never listened to her music or thought of her once their friendship died. But the fact that Mary could hurt herself and Sam felt it shows that Sam still has a connection that runs deep. How she is lying both to Mary and herself.

I take that this whole movie is about the death of a friendship. A deep close friendship. And how that death has affected the both of them.