

The Substance
Have you ever dreamt of a better version of yourself?
A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.
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7.1/10
6,703 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $17.5M
- Box office
- $77.3M
- Language
- EN
- new year's eve
- black market
- identity
- show business
- dark comedy
- beauty
- satire
- aging
- celebrity
- female protagonist
- los angeles, california
- biting
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Produced in
France, United Kingdom, United States of America
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Release dates
IndiaIN
- Digital / OTTAMUBI31 Oct 2024
United StatesUS
- PremiereLos Angeles, California16 Sept 2024
- TheatricalR20 Sept 2024
- Digital / OTTR31 Oct 2024
- PhysicalR4K Ultra HD / Blu-ray / DVD21 Jan 2025
- Digital / OTTRHBO Max10 Oct 2025
- TVRHBO11 Oct 2025
- Digital / OTTRHulu1 Oct 2026
United KingdomGB
- PremiereEdinburgh International Film Festival20 Aug 2024
- PremiereFrightfest26 Aug 2024
- Theatrical1820 Sept 2024
- Digital / OTTMUBI31 Oct 2024
- Physical184K Ultra HD / Blu-ray / DVD 31 Mar 2025
United Arab EmiratesAE
- Digital / OTT31 Oct 2024
AustraliaAU
- PremiereSydney Film Festival16 Jun 2024
- PremiereMelbourne International Film Festival14 Aug 2024
- TheatricalR 18+19 Sept 2024
CanadaCA
- PremiereToronto International Film Festival11 Sept 2024
- PremiereAtlantic International Film Festival14 Sept 2024
- PremiereCinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival15 Sept 2024
- Theatrical18A20 Sept 2024
- PremiereWindsor International Film Festival25 Oct 2024
- Digital / OTT18AMUBI31 Oct 2024
American SamoaAS
- Digital / OTTHBO Max9 Oct 2025
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical+1619 Sept 2024
- Digital / OTT+16MUBI31 Oct 2024
- Digital / OTT+16HBO Max10 Oct 2025
AzerbaijanAZ
- Theatrical19 Sept 2024
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical166 Nov 2024
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1819 Sept 2024
- Theatrical1812 Dec 2024
BulgariaBG
- TheatricalX17 Jan 2025
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The Substance was released on 18 September 2024.
Audience reviews
13- M8/10
Manuel São Bento
9/20/2024
The Substance delivers an intense, visually mesmerizing commentary on the entertainment industry's obsession with youth and outward beauty. Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley offer remarkable, maybe even career-best performances, with Dennis Quaid excelling in his role as well. Coralie Fargeat explores how aging stars, particularly women, are discarded when they no longer meet the industry's strict beauty standards. Moo…
- G
good.film
9/23/2024
For a film that’s laser-focused on the human body, it’s gloriously on point that THE SUBSTANCE begins with a freshly cracked, bright yellow egg yolk. Eggs are the ‘giver of life’, right? They’re the origin of all of us. Gleaming and plump, the yolk suddenly gets pricked – not by a fork, but a syringe. That’s the first juicy visual metaphor of many in this meaningfully bonkers body horror, for which French film…
- G10/10
griggs79
9/26/2024
Demi Moore's performance in The Substance is so potent that it's hard to tell what's more intoxicating; her inevitable Best Actress win or Coralie Fargeat's razor-sharp screenplay that's already got the Oscar in the bag.
- B4/10
Brent Marchant
9/28/2024
There’s a big difference between being funny and being laughable, yet the latest from writer-director Coralie Fargeat has somehow found a way to be both. After amassing a considerable amount of largely well-earned cinematic goodwill in the film’s opening segments, the picture mercilessly squanders that support in the final act with an overlong, meandering, disgustingly gratuitous and grotesque exhibition of utterly b…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
9/28/2024
This takes a logical step on from Coralie Fargeat's earlier "Reality+" (2014) drama, only this time it takes a much more substantial swipe at all things vain. "Elisabeth" (Demi Moore) has been at the top of her fitness game for many a year when her boss "Harvey" (Dennis Quaid) decides that she's now too old and that a younger model is needed to present those programmes we all saw on the television of gorgeous, fit an…
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