Review - Mama
Mama (2013), PG-13, 100 minutes - Jessica Chastain is ruling the box office right now, starring in the two top grossing movies in theaters this past week. One is Zero Dark Thirty (for which she earned an Oscar nomination for Best Actress), and the other is this little horror film based right here in Virginia (it had a $15 million budget and made over $32 million over its first week). Mama begins in tragedy just after the beginning of the financial collapse in 2008, a man named Jeffrey (Nikolaj Costar-Waldau) murders a co-worker and his estranged wife before taking his two daughters (three year old Victoria and one year old Lilly) and fleeing town. Driving too fast on snow covered roads, he loses control and they slide off the side of a mountain road and crash in the woods. The three of them survive the wreck and come across an abandoned cabin after fleeing the scene. Once he's started a fire, Jeffrey breaks down in another room. After regaining some ...