Madeline's Madeline

About Madeline's Madeline

Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother into their collective art, the lines between performance and reality begin to blur.

Madeline's Madeline is a 2018 drama film directed by Josephine Decker. Its themes are mental illness, mentor protégé relationship, dream sequence, and theatre group.

Helena Howard stars as Madeline, Molly Parker as Evangeline, Miranda July as Regina, and Okwui Okpokwasili as Nurse, KK. It runs 94 minutes and was released in August 2018.

The screenplay is by Josephine Decker. In the United States it streams on Fandor Amazon Channel, MUBI Amazon Channel, and Philo.

Lady Bird, Enemy, and Turning Red make useful companions to Madeline's Madeline, all filed under coming of age and mother daughter relationship. TMDB voters put it at 5.9 out of 10 across 110 votes and it carries a NR rating.