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Directed by Carlo Mirabella-Davis
Produced by Mynette Louie, Mollye Asher, Carole Baraton, and Frédéric Fiore
Written by Carlo Mirabella-Davis
With: Haley Bennett, Austin Stowell, Denis O'Hare, Elizabeth Marvel, David Rasche, Luna Lauren Velez, Zabryna Guevara, Laith Nakli, and Babak Tafti
Cinematography: Katelin Arizmendi
Editing: Joe Murphy
Music: Nathan Halpern
Runtime: 94 min
Release Date: 05 June 2020
Aspect Ratio: 2.39 : 1
Color: Color
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Haley Bennett’s unnerving performance, as a lonely young bride who develops the eating disorder known as pica, gets deeply under your skin despite writer/director Carlo Mirabella-Davis’s seeming lack of interest in developing much in this heavy-handed psychological horror drama beyond the mystery of what’s happening in the protagonist’s mind.