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A tender, bruised, and darkly funny portrait of postpartum exhaustion that uses a dreamy, slightly surreal frame to explore motherhood, marriage, identity, and the fantasy of escape. Charlize Theron anchors it with a raw, lived-in performance, and the film’s tonal shift toward revelation gives it extra emotional… Read more
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Fri · 1h 35m
Director: Jason Reitman
Starring: Charlize Theron, Mackenzie Davis, Ron Livingston
Marlo, a mother of three, including a newborn, is gifted a night nanny by her brother. Hesitant at first, she quickly forms a bond with the thoughtful, surprising, and sometimes challenging nanny named Tully.
Jason Reitman
Charlize Theron, Mackenzie Davis, Ron Livingston
A tender, bruised, and darkly funny portrait of postpartum exhaustion that uses a dreamy, slightly surreal frame to explore motherhood, marriage, identity, and the fantasy of escape. Charlize Theron anchors it with a raw, lived-in performance, and the film’s tonal shift toward revelation gives it extra emotional sting.
Tully is a postpartum pressure cooker disguised as a whimsical dramedy. It begins with the familiar chaos of sleepless parenting and domestic imbalance, then slowly reveals itself as something more reflective and more painful: a story about what motherhood costs, what women are expected to absorb, and how easily a person can disappear inside routine care work.
Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody keep the film light on its feet even when the subject matter is heavy. The script mixes bite, empathy, and surreal touches, while Charlize Theron gives the movie its emotional center with a performance that feels physically exhausted in the most convincing way. Mackenzie Davis adds a strange, luminous energy that keeps the film from becoming purely grim.
The ending reframes everything in a way that some viewers will find moving and others manipulative, but the film’s emotional honesty is hard to dismiss. It is especially effective as a conversation piece about marriage, labor, identity, and the fantasy of becoming someone else when your own life feels unmanageable.
maria (4.5★) · 1437 likes
first rule of mom club is: you do NOT talk about mom club to your useless excuse for a husband cause he would rather play fucking fortnite than help you raise your fucking kids, fucking pointless prick
mads (4★) · 1257 likes
Fight Club for mums
Lucy (3.5★) · 1119 likes
mackenzie davis cuddling a newborn baby made my womb ache
#1 gizmo fan (4.5★) · 908 likes
tully is infectiously sweet, dreamy, otherworldly. watching this with my mom made it all the better, crying into each others arms watching a world we both knew and dreamt of. life and motherhood are intertwined with love and dreams. tully is magic.
Ellie ✨ (4★) · 846 likes
for some reason i assumed her husband was mark duplass so when actual mark duplass showed up my world unraveled around me
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A more devastating companion piece for viewers interested in the physical and emotional aftermath of childbirth.
postpartum depression, motherhood, marriage strain, female identity, domestic labor, burnout, emotional isolation, fantasy and escapism
dramedy, postpartum, motherhood, marriage drama, female burnout, magical realism, emotional realism, family life, midlife crisis, indie