Mama

Mama is a 2013 Spanish-Canadian horror film co-written and directed by Andres Muschietti starring Jessica Chastain. The film is produced by J. Miles Dale and Barbara Muschietti, with Guillermo del Toro serving as executive producer. It is based on Muschietti's 2008 Spanish-language short film of the same name. Originally set for an October 2012 release, it was released in theaters on January 18, 2013.Occurring at the onset of the 2008 financial crisis, a distraught man called Jeffrey kills his business partners and estranged wife before taking his children - 3-year old Victoria and 1-year old Lily - away from home. Driving dangerously fast on a snow-covered road, the car slides off road and crashes into the woods. Surviving the crash, Jeffrey takes the children into an abandoned cabin, where he prepares a fire. Planning to kill his children and commit suicide, Jeffrey tells Victoria to look out the window and holds a gun to her head. Just as he is about to pull the trigger a shadowy figure pulls him away and out of the door, snapping his neck in the process. Victoria cannot see the figure as her glasses were in the possession of her deceased and now missing father. The girls survive by the fireside and are tossed a cherry by the mysterious figure in the night.

Directed by Andres Muschietti

Produced by J. Miles Dale, Barbara Muschietti, Guillermo del Toro

Screenplay by Neil Cross, Andres Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti

Based on Mamá by, Andres Muschietti

Starring Jessica Chastain, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Megan Charpentier, Isabelle Nélisse, Daniel Kash

Music by Fernando Velázquez

Cinematography Antonio Riestra

Editing by Michelle Conroi

Studio Toma 78, De Milo Productions

Distributed by Universal Pictures

Release date(s) 18 January 2013

Running time 100 minutes

Country Spain, Canada

Language English

Budget $15 million

Box office $34,735,000

STORY

Occurring at the onset of the 2008 financial crisis, a distraught man called Jeffrey kills his business partners and estranged wife before taking his children - 3-year old Victoria and 1-year old Lily - away from home. Driving dangerously fast on a snow-covered road, the car slides off road and crashes into the woods. Surviving the crash, Jeffrey takes the children into an abandoned cabin, where he prepares a fire. Planning to kill his children and commit suicide, Jeffrey tells Victoria to look out the window and holds a gun to her head. Just as he is about to pull the trigger a shadowy figure pulls him away and out of the door, snapping his neck in the process. Victoria cannot see the figure as her glasses were in the possession of her deceased and now missing father. The girls survive by the fireside and are tossed a cherry by the mysterious figure in the night.

Five years later, a rescue party sponsored by Jeffrey's brother Lucas stumbles upon the car and the abandoned house, finding the children alive but animal-like in behavior.[3] They are rescued and put in a welfare clinic by the courts under psychiatric care of Dr. Gerald Dreyfuss. Dreyfuss agrees to support the custody claim of Lucas and his girlfriend Annabel against their maternal great-aunt Jean on condition of having continued access to the children in a house sponsored by the clinic for case studies. Dreyfuss is intrigued by the drawings the girls have made of a mysterious character they call

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