Jeri Jacquin
On Bluray/DVD and Digital from director Tate Taylor and
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment is the very twisted story of MA.
Erica (Juliette Lewis) has returned to her hometown with daughter
Maggie (Diana Silvers) after accepting a new job. On Maggie’s first day she
meets Haley (McKaley Miller) who brings her into the fold of friends. Along
with Andy (Corey Fogelmanis), Chaz (Gianni Paolo) and Darrell (Dante Brown),
her first outing is getting party supplies.
After charming Sue Ann (Octavia Spencer), she agrees to help
the group their alcohol party supplies. A second trip for supplies, she offers
her basement as a place for the gang to party safely. The next gathering, Sue
Ann joins in with the crowd as more kids come to the basement and the party
gets bigger.
Now the kids call Sue Ann ‘Ma’ but some are feeling that
something is not quite right. Haley makes things worse by trying to convince
everyone to cut themselves off from Ma. Heading to Ma’s house along with
Maggie, they both make a stark discovery that even they don’t believe.
Sue Ann has a reunion with Ben (Luke Evans) from high school
but it doesn’t go exactly as planned. Ma has a secret of her own, a deep, dark,
terrorizing secret that puts everyone in dangerous – especially since her calm
anger is slowly bubbling to the surface.
Never mess anyone’s Ma!
Spencer as Sue Ann is absolutely horrifying, especially when
she grits her teeth and anger sparks shoot out her eyes or maybe that’s just
what I’m seeing. It shows what a versatile actress that she can go from an
Oscar winning role to a scary movie that will put everyone who sees it on edge!
As Sue Ann she is deeply disturbing, scary dark and driven by the terror done
to her – so well done.
Silvers as Maggie wants to be a part of a new group of
friends and does what most teens do and that is whatever it takes to be
accepted. Feeling a little ignored by Mom, she just parties until realizing
that something isn’t quite right with it all. Silvers gives her character the
right amount of teen angst but also isn’t about to take any guff from anyone’s
Ma!
Miller as Haley is just a party girl who has a tendency
towards being a smart mouth which is what gets her in trouble with, well,
almost everyone. Lewis as Erica is a mother trying to raise a teen daughter but
she is also another kind of mother who doesn’t do well when her child is being
used. Shout out to Tanyell Waivers as Genie and even though she has a small
part to play, it is one that she plays extremely well.
Other cast includes Dominic Burgess as Stu, Heather Pate as
Ashley, Tate Taylor as Officer Grainger, Luke Evans as Ben, Missie Pyle as
Mercedes and Allison Janney as Doctor Brooks.
Universal Studios Home Entertainment has just added an amazing
film to their library and making it available for us all to experience and
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The Bonus Features of MA are an Alternate Ending, Deleted Scenes, Creating Sue Ann, Party at Ma’s and
a Theatrical Trailer.
MA is a psychological thriller and just enough blood to keep
things interesting. The story unfolds quickly and everything that happens after
that is gritty. I just love watching Spencer transform from a woman just
getting by to a woman who tried to stuff down everything she has been feelings
to the point where it all spilled out anyway.
This is a fantastic
turn-down-the-lights-and-grab-a-tub-of-popcorn film that isn’t going to let you
shy away from any scene. MA is the kind of suspenseful thriller that has become
popular the past few years. Not blood soaked but instead slow, methodical and
won’t be hurried to its conclusion.
In the end – it’s all about getting home safe!
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