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Directed by | Nicholas Ma |
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Cinematography | Mark Jeevaratnam |
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Music by | Tom Kingston |
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Country | United States |
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Mabel is a 2024 American drama film directed by Nicholas Ma from a screenplay he co-wrote with Joy Goodwin. It stars newcomer Lexi Perkel as Callie, a young girl whose best friend is a plant named Mabel. Christine Ko also stars as her mother.
Callie is a very lonely young girl. When her dad's job moves the family to a sterile subdivision, she is isolated with her best friend, a potted plant named Mabel.
In July 2021, a casting call was released and the film's producers offered to pay people to shoot scenes inside of their homes. [1] [2] That same month, Judy Greer and Christine Ko joined the cast, [3] [4] and by August, newcomer Lexi Perkel was cast in the film's lead role. [5]
Mabel premiered at the San Francisco Film Festival on April 28, 2024. [6] The film hasn't received theartrical distribution yet. [6]
A review at The Moveable Feat stated, "Beyond their rich performances, there’s a depth of feeling in Mark Jeevaratnam’s delicately observational camerawork punctuated by vivid colorful flourishes and a lovely score from Tom Kingston where the strings can convey a sense of longing or nimble thought as characters face the unknown in approaching each other, and when the kind of growth Ma charts isn’t always visible to a camera, “Mabel” really blossoms when reflecting how becoming your own person isn’t necessarily something that has to be done alone." [6]
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