Mom and Dad

    Mom and Dad
    2018

    Synopsis

    In a suburban community, moms and dads, one after the other, mysteriously feel the irresistible impulse to attack and kill their own offspring.

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    Cast

    • Nicolas CageBrent Ryan
    • Selma BlairKendall Ryan
    • Anne WintersCarly Ryan
    • Zackary ArthurJoshua Ryan
    • Robert T. CunninghamDamon Hall
    • Olivia CrocicchiaRiley
    • Lance HenriksenMel Ryan
    • Marilyn Dodds FrankBarbara Ryan
    • Samantha LemoleJenna
    • Joseph D. ReitmanHomeroom Teacher

    Recommendations

    • 90

      Variety

      Though sure to be distasteful for some viewers even to ponder, this giddy exercise transcends mere bad-taste humor to become one of the great jet-black comedies about suburbia.
    • 80

      ScreenCrush

      Mom and Dad gives Cage his most plausible in-story excuse to unleash his total Cageosity since Face/Off. Given a juicy part and the freedom to do whatever he wants, he embraces Brent’s madness with obvious glee.
    • 75

      IndieWire

      More than the fervid cartoon violence and Cage’s rococo line readings, the film’s greatest asset lies in its simple, cold-blooded premise.
    • 75

      Slant Magazine

      Writer-director Brian Taylor's Mom and Dad invests a hoary conceit with disturbing and hilarious lunacy.
    • 70

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Zero-to-60 speed crazy is pretty much right in Cage’s wheelhouse, and he offers up a perfectly amusing comical workout of the madman shtick he could pretty much do in this sleep at this point. More impressive is Blair, a chronically underused talent who gets to demonstrate her already established flair for comedy and more besides in a role to which she brings a surprisingly level of nuance.
    • 67

      The Film Stage

      There’s also some commentary about twenty-first century technology and cellphone culture, but I don’t think Taylor goes far enough to make it more than throwaway insight soon forgotten for crazed violence. As far as the latter goes, Mom and Dad delivers crazy in an exciting way that never bores.
    • 63

      Movie Nation

      Mom and Dad is a reminder of how much gonzo fun a B-movie can be, how hilarious “Crank” was and what a hoot Nicolas Cage — who makes almost entirely B, C and D movies these days — is when he’s uncaged and unhinged.
    • 60

      The Guardian

      This is an unrepentant midnight movie, dirty and violent and best enjoyed with a steady supply of alcohol.