The horror movie Ma should be more daring about its racial themes
Ma opens with a vision of disappointment. U-Haul trailer in tow, newly divorced mom Erica (Juliette Lewis) and her 16-year-old daughter Maggie (Diana Silvers) roll into a small town that promises nothing but boredom. Erica is returning to the home she left years ago for the promise of California. Maggie is seeing it for the first time, and she approaches the place with an appropriate sense of resignation. It isn’t San Diego, but they can’t afford San Diego anymore.
When Erica gets a job at a nearby casino that keeps her away from home at odd hours, Maggie falls in with some kids who get their kicks drinking at the rock quarry, because what else is there to do? And when middle-aged veterinary assistant Sue Ann (Octavia Spencer) agrees to...
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