Your Mum and Dad
7.2
2019
1 hr 16 min
Documentary
The film follows Michael Moskowitz’s work with a New York-based therapist named Kirkland Vaughns, one of the few African-American Freudian therapists in the United States, while the director reveals her own family’s devastating trauma.
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Reviews
Sorry, this movie sucks
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Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
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One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.
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This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
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