Umma will hit theaters on March 18, 2022.
March appears to be motherhood month for Asians in film and television. With the release of Turning Red and Pachinko this month, which focus on mother-daughter relationships, it seems appropriate to release Umma, the Korean word for mother. And while his ideas about generational trauma are scary, Umma unfortunately isn’t, despite Sandra Oh doing her best with a disappointing script.
Umma tells the story of Amanda (Sandra Oh), an electrophobic beekeeper living off the grid with her teenage daughter Chrissy (Fievel Stewart). They are best friends – they do everything together, including beekeeping, raising chickens and reading books. But everything changes when Amanda’s uncle from Korea arrives with the remains of her ummah, whom Amanda abandoned many years ago. He tells her that she must pay her respects to her mother through a traditional Korean ceremony or she will never calm down. Shaken by the encounter, Amanda begins to have visions of her mother and memories of the abuse she endured, which caused her to develop a fear of electricity. A traumatized Amanda refuses to honor her dead mother, causing Umma’s spirit to slowly consume Amanda and turn her into the woman she feared most.
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