It seems that everything about Adalynn’s (Sydney Carvill) life is perfect. In fact, the word “perfect” is used so many times in the dialog that I lost count. At any rate, that word will be utterly meaningless for the next 90 minutes.
Adalynn has just given birth to a healthy baby girl (though she does cry an awful lot, which is kinda scary all on its own.) We learn that this isn’t her first time at new motherhood. She previously had a baby boy called Miles who died. She is continually haunted by the shattering experience. It never leaves her thoughts.
Adalynn has developed a myriad of mental health issues, to include OCD and a major case of post-partum depression. But she has stopped taking her meds, out of an abundance of caution (paranoia) so things are descending from bad to worse.
Her doctor (Rob Shuster) and husband, Bill (Wade Baker), also a doctor, can see what is obvious to us, too: she is losing her mind. So, naturally, Bill leaves town on a several day conference, leaving Adalynn and the baby all alone. Well, not all alone – there are many things in Mom’s poor mind.
Although this film is being partly positioned as a thriller, it’s really just a character study with a strong lead and a growing sense of dead which may or may not pay off (for me, it did not).
Still, there will be an audience for this-especially from anyone who has ever gone through the psychological horrors of conditions like this.
By the way, a much better film, and, for me, much scarier, even though it was an art house award winner and not a genre film is Father, for which Anthony Hopkins won the Oscar.
Adalynn is currently available on digital and streaming on demand.
