My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

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Plot

Inspired by a true crime, a man begins to experience mystifying events that lead him to slay his mother with a sword.

Release Year: 2009

Rating: 6.3/10 (3,835 voted)

Critic's Score: 59/100

Director:
Werner Herzog

Stars: Michael Shannon, Willem Dafoe, Chloë Sevigny

Storyline
Inspired by a true crime, a man begins to experience mystifying events that lead him to slay his mother with a sword.

Writers: Werner Herzog, Herbert Golder

Cast:

Michael Shannon

Brad McCullum


Willem Dafoe

Detective Hank Havenhurst


Chloë Sevigny

Ingrid


Brad Dourif

Uncle Ted


Michael Peña

Detective Vargas


Udo Kier

Lee Meyers


Loretta Devine

Miss Roberts


Verne Troyer


Grace Zabriskie

Mrs. McCullum


James C. Burns

Swat Commander Brown


Irma P. Hall

Mrs. Roberts


Candice Coke

Officer Slocum


Braden Lynch

Gary


Gabriel Pimentel

Midget


Jenn Liu

Receptionist

Taglines:
The Mystery Isn't Who. But Why.



Details

Official Website:
Official site |

Release Date: 8 July 2010

Filming Locations: Calaveras Big Trees State Park, California, USA

Opening Weekend: £6,815
(UK)
(10 September 2010)
(2 Screens)



Technical Specs

Runtime:



Did You Know?

Trivia:

Executive producer David Lynch had previously worked with Willem Dafoe in
Wild at Heart and Brad Dourif in both
Dune and
Blue Velvet.

Quotes:

Ingrid:
[Talking to a police officer concerning Brad McCullum's actions]
I'm his fiancee, I think I can help!



User Review

Small but classic Herzog

Rating: 8/10


OK, maybe you have to be a Herzog fan to get this one. In its small and
quiet way it's a classic Herzogian study of visionary madness and
obsession, played out this time with mordant irony against the
blandness of suburban San Diego. Brad, a brooding man-child who lives
with his mom, gradually goes nuts, saying and doing increasingly
unhinged (and funny) things to his clueless loved ones, played by goofy
character actors like Udo Kier, Grace Zabriskie and Chloe Sevigny.
Willem Dafoe plays the equally clueless detective called in when Brad,
inevitably, explodes in a single (off-screen) act of violence. All the
usual Herzog flourishes are here, though often played small: odd
animals, oddball people, grimly threatening nature, useless
bureaucratic procedures, civilization and its hapless inhabitants
struggling to maintain order and etiquette in the face of the world's
natural madness, violence and chaos. It's a wacky, Herzogian comedy of
manners, very much in the tradition of many of his films from Dwarfs
through Stroszek to Grizzly Man. If you like Herzog you'll probably
like it; if not, maybe not.