

A Thousand and One
Times change. Love stays the same.
Struggling but unapologetically living on her own terms, Inez is moving from shelter to shelter in mid-1990s New York City. With her 6-year-old son Terry in foster care and unable to leave him again, she kidnaps him so they can build their life together. As the years go by, their family grows and Terry becomes a smart yet quiet teenager, but the secret that has defined their lives threatens to destroy the home they have so improbably built.
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6.6/10
163 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
- $3.4M
- Language
- English
- new york city
- parent child relationship
- woman director
- felon
- 1990s
- mother son relationship
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United StatesUS
- PremiereSundance Film Festival22 Jan 2023
- TheatricalR31 Mar 2023
- Digital / OTTR18 Apr 2023
- Digital / OTTRPeacock19 May 2023
- PhysicalRDVD23 May 2023
- Digital / OTTRPrime Video19 Sept 2023
- PhysicalRBlu-ray26 Sept 2023
- TVRStarz19 Nov 2024
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1521 Apr 2023
AustraliaAU
- Digital / OTTM1 Nov 2023
CanadaCA
- TheatricalPG31 Mar 2023
CzechiaCZ
- Premiere15+Karlovy Vary International Film Festival1 Jul 2023
FranceFR
- Digital / OTT29 Nov 2023
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1218 May 2023
IrelandIE
- Digital / OTT1521 Apr 2023
ItalyIT
- PremiereTaormina Film Festival26 Jun 2023
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical1831 Mar 2023
New ZealandNZ
- Digital / OTTM1 Nov 2023
PolandPL
- Digital / OTT1821 Jul 2023
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A Thousand and One was released on 31 March 2023.
Audience reviews
3- C6/10
CinemaSerf
5/16/2023
This features quite a strong performance from a convincing Teyana Taylor. She is "Inez" who decides that she wants to reclaim her young son "Terry" from his life on the streets of New York. What now ensues illustrates quite well the difficulties they both face as they both grow up with little by way of opportunity - or money - but determined to stick together despite their not always seeing eye to eye. Along the way,…
- B6/10
Brent Marchant
1/3/2024
It’s been said that a mother’s love for her child runs so deep that she’ll do virtually anything to protect her young. But is it possible to carry things too far? That’s a question raised in writer-director A.V. Rockwell’s debut feature about a mother with a criminal record (Teyana Taylor) who kidnaps her young son (Aaron Kingsley Adetola) out of foster care upon her release from prison. She questions the adequacy of…
- M7/10
MartyCrooner
1/23/2024
A story about a mother-son relationship and how it changes over the course of a decade. With a background setting of New York in the 90s and 00s, the movie depicts how issues like poverty, crime, race, and gentrification interact. Well acted with beautiful characters. Except the kid can be a little too sniveling at times. I mean, I get that there's childhood trauma and abandonment issues, but geeeeez.
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