Director: Niclas Larsson
A furniture showroom becomes an unlikely prison for one fraying family in "Mother, Couch!", the 2024 tragicomedy from writer-director Niclas Larsson.
What is Mother Couch about?
Three adult siblings arrive at a rundown furniture store to help their aging mother pick out new seating, only for her to plant herself on a display couch and refuse to move. As store hours tick past closing time, old resentments and buried family history surface among the siblings while the store itself starts to feel less like a place of business and more like a maze they cannot leave. The setup stays absurd on the surface, but the film uses that strangeness to dig into how grown children relate to a parent who raised them imperfectly, and to each other.
Cast & crew
Ewan McGregor anchors the film as the eldest sibling struggling to hold the group together, with Rhys Ifans and Lara Flynn Boyle rounding out the fractious trio of children. Ellen Burstyn plays the immovable matriarch at the story's center, and Taylor Russell and F. Murray Abraham appear in supporting roles that widen the store's strange orbit of characters.
Context & significance
"Mother, Couch!" is a Denmark-Sweden-United States co-production and marks the feature debut of Niclas Larsson, adapting a Swedish novel of the same premise. The film premiered on the festival circuit before a wider release in 2024, drawing attention for its blend of deadpan comedy and family drama inside a single, tightly contained setting.
Where & how to watch
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