Mother Mary Trailer Featuring Hathaway and Coel
A24 has revealed the new trailer for Mother Mary, the upcoming psychological drama-thriller film written and directed by David Lowery. The film has been rated R by the Motion Picture Association (MPA) for some violent content and language.
Featuring original songs written and produced by Jack Atonoff and Charli xcx, as well as songs by FKA twigs, Mother Mary opens in limited theaters on April 17, 2026, before expanding nationwide on April 24.
In the film, long-buried wounds rise to the surface when iconic pop star Mother Mary (Anne Hathaway) reunites with her estranged best friend and former costume designer Sam Anselm (Michaela Coel) on the eve of her comeback performance.
Mother Mary stars Anne Hathaway, Michaela Coel, Hunter Schafer, Atheena Frizzell, Kaia Gerber, Jessica Brown Findlay, Alba Baptista, and Isaura Barbé-Brown, with Sian Clifford and FKA twigs.
Modern pop star meets gothic melodrama in David Lowery’s phantasmagoric Mother Mary, a tale of two women bound across time and space by their personal and artistic histories.
Mother Mary (Anne Hathaway, The Devil Wears Prada 2, The End of Oak Street) is a global pop icon who has crafted a larger-than-life persona over a decades-long and successful career. Finding herself in crisis, desperate to shed the smothering weight of all she’s become, the superstar turns to the only person she trusts — fashion designer Sam Anselm (Michaela Coel), the visionary friend she abandoned years ago.
When Mother Mary resurfaces out of the blue at Sam’s country estate, requesting one final dress for the performance of a lifetime, a hallucinatory night of confrontation, collaboration, memory, and reinvention begins…
Shimmering with music, fashion, and surreal horror, Mother Mary is a beguiling, dreamlike spectacle that ebbs and flows with sensation as Mother Mary’s quest for the perfect dress spirals into a spellbinding dance between two luminaries, retracing the contours of their relationship.
A delirious ode to writer-director Lowery’s own pop fandom, Mother Mary takes a deep dive into the live-wire exchange of energy between creative forces. Featuring songs written by Charli xcx, Jack Antonoff, and co-star FKA twigs, Lowery’s latest feature explores two artists’ pursuit of creative salvation during their darkest hours.
“Pop songs have the power to unite millions with shared emotion — they can make you feel seen and heard, even heal a broken heart,” says Lowery, whose previous works include The Green Knight and A Ghost Story. “Mother Mary is about how art can take something terrible and turn it into something beautiful.”
Hathaway underwent a bold transformation for the role, including voice and dance training, mastering the highs and lows of a pop queen with an ornate swagger who is also cracking at the seams.
“Mother Mary explores creativity, forgiveness, loss, regret — and what it means to have unfinished business with someone you love,” says Hathaway. “David brings every aspect of this to life in gorgeous and moving ways you haven’t seen on screen before.”
For Coel, whose Sam Anselm is Mother Mary’s greatest regret, as well as her sole remaining lifeline, the symbiotic allure between the two estranged women proved enthralling. “I was drawn to exploring two people whose bond is so strong that words and science can’t explain it,” says Coel.
“Their creative connection becomes a spiritual one. David’s writing and direction was like a magnet for me.”
You can also watch the previously-released trailer using the player below.
