In a feral, hilarious and deeply committed performance, Amy Adams offers a poignant depiction of a woman’s unraveling and reclamation of her identity. Written and directed by Marielle Heller (Can You Ever Forgive Me?), and based on Rachel Yoder’s 2021 acclaimed novel, Nightbitch is an inspired and original ode to motherhood, in all its mess, glory, and magic.

Two years after giving birth and leaving her career behind, Mother (Amy Adams) is still learning to manage stay-at-home motherhood’s ceaseless and grueling responsibilities. Dealing with a physically and emotionally distant husband and struggling to relate to other seemingly perfect moms in their suburban city, she is left feeling like an isolated, insecure husk of her former self. This cycle of monotony ends when she notices her body is undergoing a surreal and inexplicable transformation—one that makes her believe she’s turning into a dog.

Nightbitch will play in our 300-seat Peggy Payne Theater for evening and late-night showings and in the 25-seat Linder Microcinema for matinee showtimes.

Reviews

"It is piercingly honest, remarkably sardonic, and breathtakingly brave in the way it lays bare some of women's deepest struggles and truths. But it is not a film that is anti-motherhood. It celebrates it as well, in all of its primal, animalistic, savage contradictions and complexities." – Entertainment Weekly