Nicolas Cage

Selma Blair

Anne Winters

Zackary Arthur

Robert T. Cunningham

Olivia Crocicchia

Lance Henriksen

Marilyn Dodds Frank

Samantha Lemole

Joseph D. Reitman

Rachel Melvin

Brionne Davis

Bobby Richards

Mehmet Oz

Grant Morrison

Sharon Gee

Edwin Lee Gibson

Adin Steckler

Cassidy Slaughter-Mason

George Griffith

Sheri Hawthorne Carbone

Lila Tellone

Christine Dye

Lorena Diaz

Rob Gough

Angela Diehl Forman

Angie Fenton

Michael Yurchak

Bishop Stevens

Dale Miller

Emmalee Parker

Brett Mahoney

Charles Poole

Tyler Sopland

Katie Stewart

Angie Willmott

Bokeem Woodbine

Cacia Rose

Andreea Marcu

Claude Miles

Marvin Ross

Fernando Villena

Wendy Coad

Danielle Elise Bartley

Brian Taylor

Michael Tyler McDaniel

Spencer Meffert

Geoffrey Storts

Keith Meriweather

Bj Hyman

Alexander Elkins

Sarah Reagin Clemmensen

Bob Fisher

Scott Irick

Taylor Dekker

Vin Morreale Jr

Ryan Gaines

Jennifer Ham

Diz Sharpe

Lindsey Jayne Boyd

Kimberly Meffert

Andrea Ahl

Steven Tarabokia

Zeb Roberts

James Notari

Compass Hernandez

Bridget Gronotte

Marc Perlman

Delmar Reyna

J. Ryan McCleney

Daniel Williamson

Drew Frost

Trevor Thompson

Alicia Kalvin

John W. Frost

Russell Johnson

Jason Yanuzzi

Patrick O. Bird

Erica Goldsmith

James Michael Cooper

Theresa Sutera

Jere Hausfater

Christopher Lemole

Tim Zajaros

Brendan Garst

Cassian Elwes

Gina Ruiz

Sean Apuzzo

Wayne Marc Godfrey

Kyle Tekiela

Robert Jones

Ali Jazayeri

James Wise

Richie Walls

Steve Ponce

Stacey Perry

Isaac Joseph

Isaac L. Joseph

Bill Wingate

Nick Spicer

Erin Plew

Andrew Kyle Morrison

Adam Snyder

Kevin Sieve

Brett Durbin

Glenn Foster

Nate Bolotin

Renee Ramos

Rebecca Lundgren

James Currier

Chad Blevins

John Villarosa

Felipe Savahge

Patrick Strunk

Sara Bakay

Leah Vautrot

Nick Price

Lucas Staley

Alex Lebovici

Marie Perry

Robert S. Hoffman

Matt Ware

Alexis Jade Links

Christopher M. Wood

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David Gendron

Aaron Scotti

Connor Meechan

Candace Lawrence

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Mom and Dad

Armory Films

Zeal Media

United Kingdom

United States of America

English

husband wife relationship

sibling relationship

parents

mass hysteria

Gimly

It's dumb as Hell and probably only got created to facilitate Nic Cage meeting his freakout quota and also what was that ending? But shit, I've had way worse times with a movie. Probably less cathartic to someone who actually likes children or has a healthy relationship with their parents, but for me and mine? _Mom and Dad_ weren't half bad.

_Final rating:★★★ - I liked it. Would personally recommend you give it a go._

The movie presents a fun and interesting idea of parents trying to kill their kids and reminded me of the excellent Masters of Horror episode 'The Screwfly Solution'. 

Well, it was a fun idea until the movie just ended with absolutely no resolution at all. No proper ending, no answers, nothing at all. Just the credits half way through the story. I felt like I'd just wasted the last 80 or so minutes of my life. I can't recommend half a movie and I'll give it half a score. 2.5 out of 5. Don't waste your time.

I am seriously no longer watching any more films with Nic Cage in them. Between this and his other recent release, "Looking Glass," I have absolutely had it with the crappiest of storylines, some of which may have had potential but have wound up having less than a D-grade quality to them.

Honestly people, don't waste your time watching this movie which is totally devoid of any entertainment value.

Mom and Dad is one of the weirder Nicholas Cage movies, and also one of the better. Here's a film with arguably the most disturbing birth scene ever, made even creepier by the Roxette ballad playing on the soundtrack; a film that asks, what would happen if the maternal instinct were suddenly replaced with the killer instinct? That the violence is exclusively intrafamiliar (i.e., any given set of parents is hell-bent on killing their own children but not those of, say, the next-door neighbors) is as twisted as a twist can get – and I mean that as a compliment.

The movie wisely doesn’t bother explaining the origin of the parents’ homicidal rage against their offspring; this is just one of those things cinema has led us to expect from America's deceptively peaceful suburbs. Also, the cause doesn't matter; what's important is that this premise is a perfect vehicle for Nic Cage's bipolar intensity (he works wonders with his facial language, going from smile to frown and back again in such a way that it’s almost impossible to determine which is more off-putting). His character, Brent, is a family man in the midst of a midlife crisis whose latent instability is cleverly established in a scene where he sets up a pool table in his ‘man cave’, only to destroy it with a sledgehammer when he can’t get the table's surface to achieve full horizontality.

Mom and Dad is a black comedy filled with paradoxical humor. For Brent and his wife Kendall (Selma Blair), stalking their sons Carly (Anne Winters) and Josh (Zackary Arthur) as they hole up in the basement is like a second honeymoon, and to explain why he bought a gun, Brent tells Kendall that “some psycho could break into the house. How am I supposed to defend us?”, blissfully oblivious to the fact that he's now the psychopath. And then there’s an exquisite turn of events in the third act, a kind of deus ex machina that actually makes perfect sense, involving a visit from Brent's parents, and including a fierce cameo by Lance Henriksen.

In the midst of all this chaos, the filmmakers manage, in the brief 83-minute runtime, to establish meaningful relationships among the main characters, especially in the opening scenes but also through the use of of well-placed flashbacks.

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Mom and Dad( 2018)

Sometimes they just want to kill you

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A review by Gimly

Written by Gimly on Wed Jan 31 2018

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