Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother into their collective art, the lines between performance and reality begin to blur. The resulting battle between imagination and appropriation rips out of the rehearsal space and through all three women's lives.
Helena Howard
Madeline
Molly Parker
Evangeline
Miranda July
Regina
Okwui Okpokwasili
Nurse, KK
Sunita Mani
Assistant Max
Eva Steinmetz
Claire, Woman in Pig Mask
Felipe Bonilla
Santos, Cousin Elmer
Lolo Haha
Aart
Jorge Torres-Torres
Alejandro, Craps
Lisa B. Tharps
Laura
Madeline's Madeline is a drama film released in 2018 exploring themes of pregnancy, theatre group, coming of age, mental illness, dream sequence, mentor protégé relationship. Directed by Josephine Decker, it stars Helena Howard, Molly Parker, Miranda July. Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother into their collective art, the lines between performance and reality begin to blur. The resulting battle between imagination and appropriation rips out of the rehearsal space and through all three women's lives.
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