Mommy

Mommy is a Canadian movie directed and written by Xavier Dolan, starring Anne Dorval and Antoine Olivier Pilon. The story takes place in a not-too-distant future Canada, where the S-14 law has just been passed. Under this law, parents of difficult children can commit them to state psychiatric facilities. Diane, whom everyone calls Die, is a widowed woman in her forties who lives in the suburbs of Montreal. After being kicked out for his irresponsible behavior, her son Steve, a teenager with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, returns home. Die decides to take charge of him. Her goal is to keep him from ending up locked away at all costs, and to do so she must control his violent outbursts while trying to get through each day.