welcome back to movie recap today i will
show you a horror
mystery thriller film from 2019 titled
ma
spoilers ahead watch out and take care
a car with a trailer can be seen driving
on a small road
maggie is sleeping in the car and her
mother erica is driving her and their
dog to a new home
back where her mother grew up the
following morning the two of them are
preparing for school and for work
maggie gets to school and as soon as the
bell rings for class she gets lost in
the hallways
she finds a student in a wheelchair and
helps her with it during lunch break
maggie is too nervous to join the other
kids in the lunchroom so she decides to
eat in the library
the popular kids come inside and hayley
introduces herself to her and invites
her to a party over the weekend
maggie declines her invite telling her
that she'll be going to a music festival
with her mom
hayley teases her a little and leaves
with the others simultaneously
erica meets stu her new co-worker she
tries to get used to her new job
the next day erica is stomping around
the house dressed for work and looking
for something
she tells maggie that she has to work
and they won't be going to the festival
the kid decides to text hayley about the
party and later she picks her up in a
van from her house
there are three others in the van darryl
andy and chaz
they inform her that instead of the
party they'll drive around and get drunk
daryl is trying to get someone to buy
them liquor in front of a store
while the rest of them are still in the
van he can't make anyone buy them booze
so they decide to let maggie try
she's unsuccessful in the beginning too
but suddenly a woman with a dog
suen approaches and maggie asks her to
buy them the booze
the woman is reluctant and doesn't want
to do it then andy comes out of the van
and they have a little exchange
in which he manages to convince her to
do it for them they wait for her in the
van with her dog and she brings their
booze in a box
as she leaves chaz tells andy that suin
has a crush on him
they drive off when suddenly she stops
them and gives them their change back
the kids arrive at the best drinking
spot in town andy and maggie chat a
little making a connection
meanwhile suen is at work checking who
the kids are on facebook
when she finds the number for andy's
dad's security company her boss
yells for her to come and help a bit
later she calls the number and andy's
dad ben picks up
she tells him that his son might be out
drinking her boss comes in and yells at
her for being on the phone instead of
working and tells her to leave for the
day
the kids are already drinking at the
spot when suddenly a police car arrives
the cop tells them that somebody told
him that they were there he frisks andy
and tells him that his dad sent him
there
but because he doesn't like him he will
give them 10 minutes to pack up and
leave before he comes back to check
later erica waits for maggie at home and
instantly starts scolding her for
smelling of pot
they argue about the decisions maggie is
making but she gets the last word and
storms out
the next day erica drops her dog off at
the vet where suen promises to take care
of him well
suen watches her leave and her boss
yells at her again for not doing her job
that night erica asks maggie if she
wants to watch movies with her but she
says she will go out
her mom tells her to call her if she
needs a ride back home promising she
won't be mad
later maggie is with her friends in the
van and they're waiting for suanne to
get them booze from the store again
they see her putting the box in her
truck when she comes over and tells them
to meet her down the road for the
handoff
the kids follow her to a house and andy
gets out to get the booze
when he comes back he tells his friends
that suen has invited them to drink in
her basement
they decide to do it and when they walk
inside she says that she would rather
they drink safely with her supervision
suen tells them her house rules no
cussing no spitting on the floor and no
going upstairs to the house
she also takes andy's keys so she can
check if he's fit to drive before they
leave
daryl calls her mom and asks for some
snacks as she walks out of the basement
they instantly start drinking and taking
photos of themselves in the basement
soon checks their instagram to see what
they're posting then walks back down
with the snacks
chas antagonizes suanne telling her that
she can fix up the basement better for
partying
but she decides to show him something
even cooler than that
she takes out a gun and points it
straight to his face then tells him to
strip
completely when he does that sue and
laughs at him and says that the gun
doesn't even work
everyone relaxes and chas asks ma if
they're cool but she hasn't decided
yet before they leave she checks andy if
he's sober enough to drive and maggie
thanks you politely for letting them
stay there
she greets them off suen has a flashback
of the time she was a teenager and a
bunch of popular kids asked her to join
them in the best drinking spot
the next day suanne is in her basement
where she finds her old high school
yearbook then looks for maggie on
facebook
as well as her mother later she's at the
casino where erica works
erica serves two customers who turn out
to be her high school friends
it's ben and his girlfriend mercedes
she's drunk and starts asking
erica about her life and why she moved
back home soon sees that there's a fuss
going on where they're standing
with erica being very uncomfortable in
the situation eventually
the security guard makes ben take
mercedes out of the casino
suen seems to know them too later stu
has come over
erica's house to pick her up and take
her to a seminar she'll be gone for a
few days
so she tells maggie to be good and not
have anyone over in the house
meanwhile erica spies on mercedes as
she's jogging
that day the kids are walking to the van
after school and try to make maggie
invite them over while her mom is out of
town
when they reach the van chas finds a box
and andy opens it to find booze inside
suen calls the girls and asks them over
to her house she spies on them as they
cheerfully get ready to party
that night suen's house is surrounded by
teenagers and the basement is full of
them too
as the group comes in they notice she's
made some changes to the place
as she greets them in with some snacks
suen tells maggie to call her mom
hugs her the party keeps going and ma
joins the kids
they all dance together on music from
the late 70s and have fun with her but
maggie seems suspicious
at one point suen moves away from the
party and has another flashback to her
teenage years
they're all at the drinking spot and the
boy who asked her their sits beside her
chatting her up she's nice to him but he
is just pretending to like her
back at the party maggie is smoking pot
and daryl helps her light the spoon
as ma approaches them and touches the
boy awkwardly prompting him to leave
she talks to maggie about her mom when
chas interrupts them by offering a toast
for mom
she refuses to drink but the kids
convince her to have one shot
suddenly a noise is heard upstairs and
ma goes to check
lying that it's just an appliance she
goes up and gets a syringe from the
fridge
at the party haley needs to pee and when
she sees there's a line in front of the
toilet
makes maggie come with her up to the
house they enter and a bell chimes
haley finds a toilet and maggie keeps
watch when she hears something on the
second floor
it's ma yelling at someone she goes in
to get hayley but as they open the door
of the toilet
ma jumps them and makes them go back
downstairs when they do
maggie and the group leave the party
with her very upset
later suanne is seen cutting up one of
her photos and looking at herself in the
mirror
the next day she sends a million text
messages to maggie
asking to be forgiven for yelling at
them at school
haley tells her that she has sent
messages to her too when another student
joins them and asks if mal would allow
them to have a birthday party in her
basement
haley tells her that they probably can
as maggie admires the bracelet that her
boyfriend gave her
andy waves maggie over and asks her out
on a date she asks him what took him so
long to do it
the entire group gets together and jokes
with maggie and andy when they suddenly
run into ma
in front of the school she asks them to
come over but the boys decline
maggie and haley remain back to talk to
her and decline too but when hailey
starts teasing her
ma gets really serious and angry about
it she leaves the girls creeped out
later ma finds some other kids to take
to her home and they follow her there
when they reach the house they throw an
egg at her window call her
looser and drive off leaving her crying
in her truck
that night erica comes home and tells
maggie about how her seminar
went the girl tells her mom about andy
and her mom is happy for her
the next night ma is seen putting on
lipstick then going down to the basement
and partying with the kids
maggie and andy arrive but she tells him
that they'll wish the girl happy
birthday and leave immediately
the party is massive ma greets the two
of them and andy goes to get a drink
she tells maggie to be careful about
boys but maggie makes a comment that she
sounds like her mother which really
upsets ma
in a few moments ma gets some shots and
makes maggie drinkers too
the two stay at the party dancing and
kissing walmart looks over them
jealously
maggie gets dizzy very fast and loses
consciousness
she wakes up in her own bed the next day
and quickly realizes that she's missing
the earrings her mom gave her
her and andy go to the mall and he
teases her for the previous night
she tells him that she doesn't want to
hang out at moz anymore and that she
doesn't want him going over there either
meanwhile ma is at work and is putting a
bottle of diazepam back in the cabinet
later that night maggie and andy are
making out in her house
when her mom comes home the three of
them sit at the dining room table and
talk
he tells erica about his dad and she
tells him that they went to high school
together
erica tells him that she also knows his
dad's new girlfriend and he says that
she's a [ __ ]
she goes to get them some dinks when
andy gets a message from a
the next day haley tells maggie that she
should block ma
like she did then she posts a story
telling everyone to block ma
which she sees and gets super upset over
later
she re-watches the story while at work
and gets another flashback
in it she goes into a room and someone
tells her to close the door
that night maggie's phone wakes her up
she gets another message from ma
in the message she asks her and the
others to come over then asks if they're
mad at her and in the end begs them to
meet her the next day at the drinking
spot
the group finds her there the next day
ma immediately tells them that she has
cancer and that she's been taking lots
of meds
they feel sorry for her and apologize
andy goes over to hug her
but haley notices she has their friend's
bracelet on her wrist
as she leaves she invites them to come
over on saturday
haley and maggie follow her to work and
hayley tells her about the bracelet
she also tells maggie that she's missing
a ring and maggie tells her about the
earrings she's been missing
they go to moss house to check if the
stuff is there once inside
they go to the second floor and find it
locked from the outside
they go into a room and see that she has
pictures of them all over
maggie finds a page from her yearbook
and haley finds a picture of andy with a
picture of his dad taped to the back
simultaneously ben walks into the vet's
office with his cat and recognizes suin
immediately
he says that they should catch up
sometime and asks her to a pub that
night
she agrees to meet him there at six in
another flashback from her teenage years
ben has handed her a message to meet him
in the closet one of the girls in her
class
that seems to be erica doesn't like that
meanwhile back at moz
maggie finds a picture of her mother in
the yearbook haley wants to show her
something
when suddenly the girl in the wheelchair
shows up in the room asking what they're
doing there
she says that suan is her mom and that
she can walk but that she's not supposed
to because she's sick
maggie introduces her to haley as genie
she also tells them that she hasn't been
to school lately because her sickness
has gotten worse
or at least that's what her mom had told
her hayley is confused that suan is her
mom
in the meantime ma is driving home the
girls continue talking and jeannie tells
them that she can hear them in the
basement sometimes and they tell her to
join them there next time
jeannie then tells them to leave so that
her mom doesn't find them in her room
as the girls get ready to leave and find
the door locked ma drives in and comes
inside the house
she notices that someone has moved her
things as the girls sneak away from her
they leave through the basement and she
goes upstairs later
she's getting ready to go out and meet
ben when jeannie asks if she can go back
to school
ma tells her that she's too sick and
gives her a shot telling her that she
should cut all of her hair off before it
falls on its own
she says that she doesn't want other
kids to make fun of her and that that's
why she has to stay there with her
next suanne is at the pub waiting when
she has another flashback of mercedes
teaching her what to do when she meets
ben in the closet
he arrives in the pub and instantly
orders a drink she orders a coke
they chat about their schoolmates and
reunions but sue and then mentions his
wife
who died of cancer she tells him that
she was also married but it didn't work
out
ben shows her a tracking device that he
had installed in his son's van and asks
her why he'd been over at her house very
often she doesn't know what to say
but he thinks she's trying to get back
at him and begins to belittle her
he gives her a warning that if she sees
his son again he won't call the police
but handle the situation himself the
next day
suen is researching how to find a
tracker on a car when her boss comes in
and tells her to do her job
again maggie tells andy everything her
and haley have found in ma's house
but he defends her explaining that his
mom acted strange on cancer medication
too
she tells him that she doesn't think
suen has cancer and that she's in love
with him the same way she was in love
with his dad
maggie goes home and finds suanne is
there as well talking to her mom
she tries to sneak out but erica sees
her and calls her in
both her and suen pretend that they
don't know each other her mom says that
they went to school together
suen leaves quickly and tells maggie to
look after her dog
as she's walking out she has another
flashback about the moment she met ben
in the closet
it turns out that the boy she was with
wasn't him at all but another boy
the whole school makes fun of her as
she's driving home
she sees mercedes on the street and runs
her over without even a flinch
that night maggie is doing homework when
she hears her dog crying
she finds him bleeding and thinks she
sees someone running away
at the vet's office suen takes more
vials of drugs and walks into the pound
where she has locked her dead boss's
body in a cage
maggie and erica stress over their
wounded dog and erica decides to call
suan
but maggie tells her not to she tells
her mom the whole story about ma
simultaneously ben knocks on suen's door
he's looking for his son there when
suddenly suen shows him the tracker and
sedates him
then tries to go after her but faints
back at maggie's
erica is pissed about everything
involving ma she grounds maggie
telling her that she won't be going
anywhere or seeing anyone until the
summer break
meanwhile suen has restrained ben to her
bed
he wakes up and she threatens to cut off
his tool just to scare him
she tells him that she won't get her
revenge that way and starts an iv with
the dog's blood
suan cuts his hand open and sedates him
again
later erica tells maggie that they'll
spend the next day together
then she goes to the liquor store and
sees sue in there
she immediately starts yelling at her
but the conversation quickly turns
awkward when sue and starts talking
about high school
maggie gets a message from ma showing
her that andy is at her place and that
she also has her earrings
the girl steals her mom's car and goes
to ma's house finding a party they're
underway
she confronts andy immediately as she
walks in as ma watches her get angry
with him
the entire group is there for chaz's
birthday all of them are drunk and
drugged and ready to party
meanwhile ma goes up to genie's room and
tells her that it's time for bed
she gives her some pills and leaves then
she bolts the basement door from the
outside
maggie realizes that something is going
on but can't seem to find a way out as
the others keep fainting
she walks up to the house and gets in
but unfortunately the main door is
locked as well
maggie hears a noise upstairs that she
thinks it's genie and goes up to help
her
once there she finds ben but ma sneaks
up behind her and sedates her too
the next morning erica wakes up at their
home and maggie wakes in ma's basement
the entire group is there still
unconscious including one other
classmate
the girl wakes up but maggie signals her
to stay quiet as ma is cutting open
chaz's shirt
she burns him with an iron and the other
girl freaks out trying to get away
ma hits her over the head then she walks
over to haley and stitches her lips
together
meanwhile erica is trying to wake maggie
but when she goes to check in her room
and sees that she's not there
she calls to and asks him to come over
back at the basement
ma tells maggie how hard it is when no
one asks you how to party
then ma paints over daryl's face with
white paint saying they only have room
for one of them suddenly
andy wakes up and asks mai if she's mad
at them she unlocks his restraints and
hugs him
saying that they are the cutest couple
andy tells her that he loves her and
they kiss
but ma stabs him knowing that he's lying
to her she goes over to maggie when
there's a ring on the door
it's a police officer asking about the
cars parked outside her house
she acts like she doesn't know anything
about it maggie makes a racket in the
basement but as soon as the cop suspects
something
jeannie arrives that aide's mind sending
the police officer away
as he leaves he hears maggie shouting
from the basement
suddenly ma shoots him ma makes genie
drag the cop's body inside
simultaneously stu arrives at erikas and
they both go to find maggie together
ma comes back in the basement and tells
maggie to help her arrange her friends
for a picture
or else she'll kill them all maggie does
it and then takes the picture as ma
posses for her
then she strings her up on a pole but
here's genie calling for her and goes to
check
the girl hits her over the head pushing
her down the stairs
as a candle falls over and starts a fire
haley and the others start waking up
genie comes down and helps maggie down
then helps the rest with the restraints
since the stairs are on fire they can't
get out and start banging on the hatch
ma grabs jeannie and at the same time
stu and erica open the basement hatch
erica and maggie stay behind as genie
begs maggie for help
erica apologizes to ma for what happened
but doesn't let her daughter help genie
as ma is dragging her away maggie pulls
away from her mom
grabs the knife and stabs her releasing
genie from her grip
erica gets genie and maggie out but ma
stays back and goes into the house
she sees them through her window and
goes up to the second floor
lying down next to ben with a house
completely in flames
the fire department arrives too late
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