Two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank plays a grieving, alcoholic mom who meets her opioid-addicted son's pregnant girlfriend only after his death.
The title of Miles Joris-Peyrafitte’s “The Good Mother” is initially a bit ironic. Marissa is a hard-boozing mom who has inured herself to the reality of her grown sons’ lives. Michael is an opioid addict and a criminal, dabbling in drug trafficking, while her other son, Toby exists on the other side of the law-and-order line — he’s a cop.
But there’s another mother in “The Good Mother,” whom Marissa discovers at Michael’s funeral, much to her shock and sadness. It’s Paige , Michael’s girlfriend, her hair dyed black, her belly swollen. Marissa wallops Paige across the face before she can even get the happy news out, furious at her for her role in Michael’s demise. But Paige is resilient. She bounces back, and into Marissa’s life, without bitterness.
“The Good Mother” is the third feature film from Joris-Peyrafitte, his second with collaborator Madison Harrison . The pair also co-wrote Joris-Peyrafitte’s 2016 debut, an impressionistic teenage crime story set in the 1990s. “The Good Mother” is also a period piece, set in 2016 against the backdrop of the U.S. presidential election, though that choice feels incidental to the story at hand.Joris-Peyrafitte and Harrison position “The Good Mother” as the second in a trilogy about their hometown of Albany, N.Y., following “As You Are,” and in this installment, they tackle the opioid crisis and corrupt cops.
Cooke and her character, Paige, inject some life into the proceedings, but the central mystery feels forced, the twists implausible. The screenplay strains for topicality, stuffing too many elements at once into this sad story in a bid for relevance that never quite resonates. It only serves to detract from what should be the central focus of the film — the two mothers who have been left in the wake of destruction wrought by opioids and gun violence.
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