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Monster-in-Law (2005)

★ 6.2 · 1,749 ratings on TMDB

This relationship is going to be a real mother.

Monster-in-Law poster★ 6.2

Office temp Charlotte Cantilini thinks she's found Mr. Right when she starts dating gorgeous surgeon Dr. Kevin Fields. But there's a problem standing in the way of everlasting bliss: Kevin's overbearing and controlling mother, Viola. Fearing she'll lose her son's affections forever, Viola decides to break up the happy couple by becoming the world's worst mother-in-law.

The emergence reading

Monster-in-Law keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.