Eight-year-old Jenny (Violet McGraw) is constantly caught in the middle of the feuding between her lawyer mother Maggie (Mamie Gummer) and artist father Jeff (Rupert Friend). She leads a lonely but imaginative life, surrounded by puppets called "Grisly Kin," which are based on the works of her father. When Maggie is tragically killed in a hit-and-run, Jeff and Jenny try to piece together a new life. But when Maggie's father (Brian Cox) sues for custody, and babysitter Samanth... (Full plot summary below)
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Eight-year-old Jenny (Violet McGraw) is constantly caught in the middle of the feuding between her lawyer mother Maggie (Mamie Gummer) and artist father Jeff (Rupert Friend). She leads a lonely but imaginative life, surrounded by puppets called "Grisly Kin," which are based on the works of her father. When Maggie is tragically killed in a hit-and-run, Jeff and Jenny try to piece together a new life. But when Maggie's father (Brian Cox) sues for custody, and babysitter Samantha (Madeline Brewer) tries to be the new woman of the house, life in their Brooklyn town home takes a dark turn. The puppets and frightening characters come to life and Jenny is the only person who can see them. When the motives of the ghoulish creatures become clear, the lives of everyone are put very much in jeopardy.
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| The A.V. ClubA.A. DowdThe film’s lone value may be setting up the perfect answer to that “improve a movie with one letter” challenge: Add an indefinite article to the front of its title, and you’re left with one of the great films of the new millennium—and, incidentally, a much more unnerving portrait of a marriage on the rocks. |
| VarietyNick SchagerDespite having characters incessantly explain key plot points, Separation lacks basic logic. |
| RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoWilliam Brent Bell’s Separation is an atrocious piece of work, a movie that fails as both a domestic drama and as a horror flick, and really feels like the kind of thing that everyone involved is going to have to discuss in therapy someday to get to the bottom of why it was even made in the first place. |
| User ReviewkuehnauAn excellent horror film. I enjoyed this film from start to finish. Nothing complicated, just a good ol fashioned haunting. |
| User ReviewOrukayuHorror movie of 2021. The film again tells about the suffering of a soul in order to tell something. While talking about the custody of a divorced mother and father's daughters, the mother's death as a result of a car crash and the strange events that occur in the house where the father and child live are told. I think it was a simple and ineffective film for a veteran actor like Brian Cox. The subject is very familiar and contains many clichés. It offers a lot of similarities with the movie named "Mama". It would have been more frightening if they had used the black-and-white clown in the man's dream, walking backwards. There are no nudity or sexually explicit scenes in the movie. There are no scary scenes either. I've watched more scary cartoons. |
| User ReviewThisOnesMeSome good effects but, I did not understand the plot at all. The contortionist did a good job eliciting unsettling feelings, but other than that this movie plays like a trailer. Full of unresolved storylines but it leaves the audience with little reason to care. |
| User ReviewJLuis_001If you want to fall asleep, use it as a remedy. If you want to watch a horror movie, look elsewhere. |
