Nightbitch‘s First Trailer Shows Amy Adams Experiencing the Feral Side of Motherhood

The versatile Amy Adams has played a fairy-tale princess, a linguist who communicates with aliens, and Lois Lane—but she’s facing a caller and freaky situation successful Nightbitch: playing a dog. Or astatine least, an creator turned stay-at-home ma whose affectional breakdown, brought connected by toddler tantrums and a superior individuality crisis, causes her to judge she mightiness beryllium turning into the titular creature.

The archetypal trailer is here, and it conveys the movie’s off-kilter code of drama and home horror, with much than a hint of surreal supernatural suggestion.

Rachel Yoder’s 2021 best-seller, which provides the root worldly for Marielle Heller’s film, is described as a “satirical fairy tale,” and the movie is decidedly leaning into that “is she/isn’t she” canine question astatine the story’s center. Adams—a six-time Oscar nominee—is intelligibly the perfect focal constituent for what looks to beryllium a travel of self-empowerment, arsenic good arsenic a commentary connected however caller moms indispensable negociate expectations and immense responsibilities… portion besides keeping ahold of their ain happiness. (That’s Scoot McNair co-starring arsenic the hubby who truly needs to larn to prime his words much carefully.)

Heller, who besides adapted the Nightbitch screenplay, is nary alien to tales of analyzable women; her erstwhile features see Can You Ever Forgive Me?, starring Melissa McCarthy arsenic an writer who turns to forgery to revive her failing career. She besides made the Mr. Rogers biopic A Beautiful Day successful the Neighborhood, which besides centers connected a troubled writer (as good arsenic a definite famed TV personality), but Nightbitch—the tagline is “Motherhood is simply a antithetic beast”—looks to beryllium her astir audacious enactment to date.

Nightbitch besides stars Jessica Harper (yes, that is who you saw successful the trailer, talking astir “primal urges”: the cult-beloved prima of Suspiria and Phantom of the Paradise!), Zoë Chao (The Afterparty), Mary Holland (Happiest Season), Archana Rajan, Arleigh Patrick Snowden, and Emmett James Snowden. It’ll person its premiere astatine the Toronto International Film Festival aboriginal this week, past hits theaters successful a constricted merchandise starting December 6.

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