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Mama

Year:
Duration:
100 min
Genres:
Horror
IMDB rate:
6.2
Director:
Andrés Muschietti
Awards:
12 wins & 14 nominations
Details
Country: Canada
Release Date: 2013-01-18
Filming Locations: Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
Earnings
Budget: $20,000,000
Opening Weekend: $28,123,052 (USA) (20 January 2013)
Gross: $71,588,220 (USA) (31 March 2013)
Cast
Actor
Character
Jessica Chastain
Annabel
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Lucas
Megan Charpentier
Victoria
Isabelle Nélisse
Lilly
Daniel Kash
Dr. Dreyfuss
Javier Botet
Mama
Jane Moffat
Jean Podolski /
Morgan McGarry
Young Victoria
David Fox
Burnsie
Dominic Cuzzocrea
Ron
Christopher Marren
Cop (as Chris Marren)
Julia Chantrey
Nina
Ray Kahnert
Judge
Diane Gordon
Louise
Matthew Edison
Young Cop
Maya Dawe
Young Lilly
Sierra Dawe
Young Lilly
Nick Hall
Annabel's Bandmate
Joey Proulx
Annabel's Bandmate
Hannah Cheesman
Beautiful Mama / Skinny Woman
Elva Mai Hoover
Dr. Dreyfuss' Secretary
Pamela Farrauto
Nun (as Pamela Susan Farrauto)
Chrys Hobbs
Nun 2
Laura Guiteras
Mama
Melina Matthews
Mama
Sydney Cross
Orphaned Girl (uncredited)
Tyler Curnew
Orphaned Boy #2 (uncredited)
Jayden Greig
Orphaned Boy (uncredited)
Kevin Kirkham
Lawyer for Jean Podolski (uncredited)
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Trivia
Mama's movement is not entirely CGI. Javier Botet has well-above-average range of motion in his joints. The only CGI on Mama is her hair.
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Mama's appearance was inspired by painting by Modigliani, owned by Andrés Muschietti.
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Doug Jones portrayed the title character in del Toro's film Pan's Labyrinth (2006), and the Thin Infected Man creature in Quarantine (2008), the same character Javier Botet originally plays in [Rec] (2007) and its sequels, as the Medeiros Girl creature.
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Goofs
When young Victoria is walking into the cabin for the first time, she steps onto the snow which sticks to her foot revealing that it is a actually a white carpet.
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When Lily persuades Victoria to call Mama, her blanket's end changes between different shots.
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The film is set in Virginia and while most elements are factual, such as the state seal in the librarian's ID badge, all cars in Virginia have a State Inspection Sticker on the center of the windshield. This is missing on all cars in the film.
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Quotes
Ron: [Finding the girls] Burnsie! Can we call them now!
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Dr. Dreyfuss: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
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Lilly: Victoria! Come! Mama!
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Faq
Q
In the beginning, why did Lucas's brother Jeff (the kids father) panic and try to kill his own kids?
A
The stock market fell. So Jeff goes home and shoots his wife, takes his two young daughters, drives away, crashes the car, finds a cabin, tries to shoot himself but realises his daughters will be left to fend for themselves. So he decides to kill them first but Mama lifts him up and breaks his neck before he has the chance. Jeff is also shown to be on some sort of medication, we see him shaking his pill bottle only to realise it's empty. This could possibly suggest bipolar disorder, thus further explaining why he took the actions mentioned above.
Q
Explain the ending
A
Earlier in the movie, we see Dr. Dreyfuss collecting a box with remains dug up from a defunct cemetery. That box contained the remains of Mama's real baby, the one she lost during her jump off the cliff. The movie shows a piece of cloth hanging from that branch that Mama hit on the way down -- her baby was in there. The archivist who showed Dr. Dreyfuss the box told him (and the viewers) that "a ghost is an emotion bent out of shape, condemned to repeat itself time and time again." That's why at the end of the movie Mama is so intent on jumping off that cliff. Towards the end of the movie, Mama takes over the body of the children's maternal great-aunt Jean who came snooping (she also wanted custody of the children) and uses that body to drive Victoria and Lilly back to the cabin and the cliff at the lake right behind it. Annabel and Lucas make it to the cabin and the clifftop, where Annabel takes out the box, shows Mama the remains of her baby and trades them for Victoria and Lilly. Mama at first seems content with her own baby, but when she hears Lilly resisting Lucas pulling her back to the others, she gets angry again at the people who are apparently taking away the children she's claimed as her own. She beats away Lucas and Annabel and drags the kids towards the edge of the cliff. Annabel fights back tenaciously, until Victoria decides to stay behind. Lilly is happy to go with Mama, and together they jump off the cliff. In a way, everyone got what they wanted: Annabel got Lucas back, as well as Victoria, who she'd grown fond of; Victoria could go back to a normal family with Annabel, who she'd grown fond of; Mama got herself a child, Lilly; Lilly did not have to give up Mama; and Lucas got both Annabel and a foster daughter, Victoria.
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