The Good Mother is a film by Miles Joris-Peyrafitte that brings us the perspective of a mother with the acceptance of having a son as a drug addict.

The Synopsis 

Starring two-time Academy Award®-winner Hilary Swank, Olivia Cooke (“House of Dragon”) and Jack Reynor, The Good Mother follows journalist Marissa Bennings (Swank, “Million Dollar Baby”) who, after the murder of her estranged son, forms an unlikely alliance with his pregnant girlfriend Paige (Cooke) to track down the killers. Together they confront a world of corruption and drugs in the seedy underbelly of a small city in upstate New York. As they get closer to the truth, they unearth an even darker secret.

The writer, director and composer Miles Joris-Peyrafitte started his career as a filmmaker doing short films like Basil King: Mirage and As a Friend. As You Are was his first full length debut and worked on it as a writer and director. A film that gave him recognition and including the award in the US Dramatic Competition at Sundance 2016. By 2021 Joris-Peyrafitte made Forbes in the 30 Under 30 list. Tank Girl is one of his next projects based on a British comic book of the same title. 

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I spoke with the filmmaker Miles Joris-Peyrafitte about the making of The Good Mother. He spoke about bringing a different side of a drug addict story, the mothers journey. He also expresses the amazing experience of having Hilary Swank as the mother and bringing her and Olivia Cooke into his hometown to film. Miles Joris-Peyrafitte also spoke about the hardest scenes to shoot and having to pass the torch to Swank for a minute to be able to recover from slight motion sickness and and who was signed on first!

The Good Mother hits theaters September 1, 2023 and On Demand September 19, 2023

Source: LRMExclusive, Vertical