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Martha Marcy May Marlene
You can get away. But you can never escape.
You can get away. But you can never escape.
Drama, Thriller - 2011
6.9
90%
75
After several years of living with a cult, Martha finally escapes and calls her estranged sister, Lucy, for help. Martha finds herself at the quiet Connecticut home Lucy shares with her new husband, Ted, but the memories of what she experienced in the cult make peace hard to find. As flashbacks continue to torment her, Martha fails to shake a terrible sense of dread, especially in regard to the cult's manipulative leader.
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Rated:
R
Runtime:
101 min
Release date:
21 Oct 2011
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$1,000,000
Revenue:
$3,500,000
Awards:
22 wins & 70 nominations.

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
In quiet, intimate ways, it is one of the most startling, haunting films you'll see all year.
– Christy Lemire,
Associated Press,
18 Mar 2014
fresh:
Durkin intersperses the present-day scenes with increasingly revelatory flashbacks from Martha's two years in the cult.
– Peter Rainer,
Christian Science Monitor,
18 Mar 2014
fresh:
MMMM emphasizes the social and economic discrepancies between Martha's then and now, and alludes to Lucy's guilt about not being there for her younger sister in the past.
– Lisa Schwarzbaum,
Entertainment Weekly,
18 Feb 2012
fresh:
Once we've got over the frustration of this promising film's abrupt ending, we're left with the feeling that you can escape a cult but you can't escape yourself.
– Dave Calhoun,
Time Out,
31 Jan 2012
fresh:
A purposely disturbing portrait of a damaged psyche.
– Tom Long,
Detroit News,
4 Nov 2011
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