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Monica

5.6(51)20231h 53m2

After years of estrangement, a trans woman returns home to help care for her dying mother.

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Status
Released
Budget
$1.7M
Box office
$182K
Language
English
  • forgiveness
  • affectation
  • dying mother
  • lgbt
  • hard
  • meditative
  • vexed
  • acceptance
  • candid
  • thoughtful
  • somber
  • unassuming

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Behind the camera

Produced in

Italy, United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereChicago International Film Festival14 Oct 2022
    • PremiereAFI Fest6 Nov 2022
    • Theatrical (limited)R12 May 2023
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical15Cut15 Dec 2023
    • Physical15DVD18 Mar 2024
  • AustraliaAU

    • PremiereMardi Gras Film Festival27 Feb 2024
  • CzechiaCZ

    • Premiere18+Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2 Jul 2023
  • ItalyIT

    • PremiereVenice Film Festival2 Sept 2022
    • TheatricalNOAM Faenza Film Festival6 Mar 2023
    • TVRAI 227 Jul 2024

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Monica was released on 6 March 2023.

Audience reviews

2
  • B

    Brent Marchant

    6/26/2023

    8/10

    Acceptance, reconciliation and forgiveness are arguably among the hardest feelings for many of us to deal with, but coming to terms with them is by no means impossible. When Monica (Trace Lysette), a transgender woman kicked out by her family as an adolescent, leaves her Midwestern home and heads to California to start a new life, she struggles to get by. And, after years of effort, she indeed manages to work it out …

  • C

    CinemaSerf

    12/24/2023

    6/10

    Trace Lysette is quite effective here as the eponymous woman who returns to her family to help care for her terminally ill mother "Eugenia" (Patricia Clarkson). She's a trans woman, is "Monica", and it's been more than twenty years since she left. Needless to say, there are adjustments a-plenty to be made by all concerned, and given the imminence of the impending demise, the story gains an added potency putting thing…

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