The senior partner of an investment brokerage Jeffrey has a breakdown and kills his two associates and his wife. Then he takes his three-year old daughter Victoria and the one-year old daughter Lilly and drives his car through a winding snowing road. He has a car accident and fall off a cliff, but he brings his daughters to an abandoned and isolated cabin to kill them, but the children are saved by a creepy ghostly creature. Five years later, Jeffrey's brother Lucas finds the children that were raised without social relationship and claim that they have been raised by Mama. Lucas disputes the custody with the children's grandmother but Dr. Dreyfuss, who is studying the girls, selects Lucas to take care of the children. Lucas lives with his girlfriend Annabel, who plays in a rock'n'roll band, and Victoria and Lilly moves to their house. Soon Lucas and Annabel find that the girls were not delusional and they are not alone in the house.
Cast: Jessica Chastain, Megan Charpentier, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Crew: Andres Muschietti (Director), Antonio Riestra (Director of Photography), Fernando Velazquez (Music Director)
Rating: A (India)
Release Dates: 18 Jan 2013 (India | Wide Theatrical Release)
Did you know? Isabelle Nélisse can't speak English, which is why she's not given much dialogue and speaks more with body language. Read More
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as Annabel
as Victoria
as Lucas / Jeffrey
as Cop
as Burnsie
as Beautiful Mama / Skinny Woman
as Lilly
as Jean Podolski
as Mama
as Nina
as Young Cop
as Mama
as Young Victoria
as Nun
as Judge
as Dr. Dreyfuss
as Orphaned Girl
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Film Type:
Feature
Language:
English
Colour Info:
Color
Sound Mix:
Datasat Digital Sound, Dolby, Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound
Camera:
ARRI ALEXA M
Frame Rate:
24 fps
Aspect Ratio:
1.85:1 (Flat)
Stereoscopy:
No
Movie Connection(s):
Spoofed in: Scary Movie (English)
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Goofs:
Continuity
When the girls are in the cabin and Lilly looks out the window, her right glasses lens is clearly missing.
Continuity
In the cabin in the opening scene, the girls' position relative to each other switches between shots when the cherry seed is rolled to them.
Continuity
When Victoria hits Lucas when he first visits her following her return from the wilderness, his hair is ruffled. His hair then changes several times between shots.
Miscellaneous
When Annabel is searching Dr. Dreyfuss' computer, the folder containing his research is mistakenly labeled "Reasearch."
When the girls are in the cabin and Lilly looks out the window, her right glasses lens is clearly missing.
Continuity
In the cabin in the opening scene, the girls' position relative to each other switches between shots when the cherry seed is rolled to them.
Continuity
When Victoria hits Lucas when he first visits her following her return from the wilderness, his hair is ruffled. His hair then changes several times between shots.
Miscellaneous
When Annabel is searching Dr. Dreyfuss' computer, the folder containing his research is mistakenly labeled "Reasearch."
Trivia:
Mama is played by a man, Javier Botet, who has Marfan syndrome that give him a slender body and long fingers.
Mama's movement is not entirely CGI. Javier Botet can remove his joints as he wish. The only CGI on Mama is her hair.
Isabelle Nélisse can't speak English, which is why she's not given much dialogue and speaks more with body language.
Mama's appearance was inspired by painting by Modigliani, owned by Andrés Muschietti.
According to Chastain, Annabel's octopus tattoo describes her character. When Annabel found herself caught in a situation she did not like, such as the octopus, she would take off her tentacles and grow new tentacles to escape.
Mama's movement is not entirely CGI. Javier Botet can remove his joints as he wish. The only CGI on Mama is her hair.
Isabelle Nélisse can't speak English, which is why she's not given much dialogue and speaks more with body language.
Mama's appearance was inspired by painting by Modigliani, owned by Andrés Muschietti.
According to Chastain, Annabel's octopus tattoo describes her character. When Annabel found herself caught in a situation she did not like, such as the octopus, she would take off her tentacles and grow new tentacles to escape.
