Check out the Mother, Couch trailer, an upcoming film starring Ewan McGregor & Academy-award winner Ellen Burstyn, Taylor Russell, Lara Flynn Boyle, Rhys Ifans, Lake Bell and Academy-award winner F. Murray Abraham. Mother, Couch is based on the book Mamma I Soffa by Jerker Virdborg.
The members of a dysfunctional family find themselves mysteriously trapped in an antiquated furniture store when their elderly matriarch (Ellen Burstyn) suddenly refuses to get up from one of the display couches. Reluctantly assembled, her three estranged children – David (Ewan McGregor), Gruffudd (Rhys Ifans), and Linda (Lara Flynn Boyle) – must figure out how to escape this bizarre predicament. With the help of the store managers, Marco & Marcus (F. Murray Abraham), and their daughter Bella (Taylor Russell) the siblings embark on a mind-bending odyssey that forces them to face life-altering truths about their own lives and upbringing.
Written by and directorial debut of Niclas Larsson, Producers include Ella Bishop and Pau Suris for Suris/Bishop Films, Alex Black for Lyrical Media, and Sara Murphy for Fat City. Executive producers are Jon Rosenberg and Natalie Sellers under their Lyrical Media banner, Ryan Zacarias for Fat City, McGregor, and David Harari. Mother, Couch was made in co-production with Film i Vast and Snowglobe.
Mother, Couch opens in theaters in New York (Angelika Film Center) on July 5 and Los Angeles (Landmark Nuart) on July 12.
The members of a dysfunctional family find themselves mysteriously trapped in an antiquated furniture store when their elderly matriarch (Ellen Burstyn) suddenly refuses to get up from one of the display couches. Reluctantly assembled, her three estranged children – David (Ewan McGregor), Gruffudd (Rhys Ifans), and Linda (Lara Flynn Boyle) – must figure out how to escape this bizarre predicament. With the help of the store managers, Marco & Marcus (F. Murray Abraham), and their daughter Bella (Taylor Russell) the siblings embark on a mind-bending odyssey that forces them to face life-altering truths about their own lives and upbringing.
Written by and directorial debut of Niclas Larsson, Producers include Ella Bishop and Pau Suris for Suris/Bishop Films, Alex Black for Lyrical Media, and Sara Murphy for Fat City. Executive producers are Jon Rosenberg and Natalie Sellers under their Lyrical Media banner, Ryan Zacarias for Fat City, McGregor, and David Harari. Mother, Couch was made in co-production with Film i Vast and Snowglobe.
Mother, Couch opens in theaters in New York (Angelika Film Center) on July 5 and Los Angeles (Landmark Nuart) on July 12.
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Short filmTranscript
00:00 -Elkwood Furniture Balance, thank you.
00:02 -Ready to leave, Mom?
00:04 -What did she say to you?
00:05 -She said she wanted to stay.
00:08 -And you?
00:09 -Same.
00:10 -Are you alright?
00:11 -I'm fine. I'm...
00:13 I'm just not going with you.
00:15 ♪♪♪♪
00:17 -That's your mom up there?
00:19 Is there something wrong?
00:20 [ Screaming ]
00:21 -What is going on? -Who is that?
00:23 -That's my older sister, Linda.
00:25 -My mom is upstairs on a sofa.
00:27 -How long have you been here?
00:28 How long has she been here? -Two, three hours.
00:30 -Why don't we just call someone and come pick her up?
00:32 -Do you guys think you're, um, leaving pretty soon?
00:35 -You didn't have to go all crazy
00:37 just to get the three of us together.
00:39 -She could stay here.
00:40 -We cannot stay.
00:41 -Maybe she's trying to tell us something, you know?
00:43 -I mean, Mom, we're gonna have to carry you up here
00:45 if you don't want to leave by your own feet.
00:47 -Oh, good luck with that.
00:48 As soon as you grab my arms and legs,
00:51 I'll throw myself all around,
00:52 and I'll bite you, and I'll kick you,
00:54 and if you get as far as the stairs,
00:58 I will fall
00:59 and hit my head so hard it'll burst!
01:02 ♪♪♪♪
01:04 -Who are you? You a part of the family?
01:07 -Yeah. Su--Sure.
01:08 -People tend to get confused in a place like this.
01:11 -Do you think we're here for her?
01:12 -We always encourage our clients to leave.
01:16 -It's hard being a parent.
01:18 -You know that you're doing harm all the time.
01:20 You feel like you want to apologize,
01:22 but for what?
01:24 For being a parent?
01:25 -What you're thinking, son?
01:27 -I don't know.
01:29 -You don't stab someone in the back,
01:32 not even family.
01:33 -I saved you.
01:35 -Saved me from what?
01:37 -Aah!
01:38 -Oh, sorry!
01:40 [ Crying ]
01:43 [ Crying ]
01:46 ♪♪♪♪
01:54 ♪♪♪♪
02:01 -To new...
02:03 furniture, I suppose.
02:04 -To new furniture!
02:06 (upbeat music)
02:08 [BLANK_AUDIO]