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Ma (2019)

★ 5.8 · 2,420 ratings on TMDB

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Ma poster★ 5.8

Sue Ann is a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One day, she is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends, and Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting, if younger, friends of her own.

DirectorTate Taylor
CastCorey Fogelmanis, Dante Brown, Diana Silvers, Gianni Paolo, Juliette Lewis, Luke Evans
GenresHorror, Thriller
The emergence reading

Ma 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 rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

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

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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