Article 5WN5H Uninvited generational trauma comes knocking in Umma’s first trailer

Uninvited generational trauma comes knocking in Umma’s first trailer

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Charles Pulliam-Moore
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Screen_Shot_2022_03_01_at_2.41.28_PM.0.p Amanda's Umma coming back to haunt her. | Sony

In Sony's upcoming supernatural horror thriller Umma from director Iris K. Shim, the simple, quiet lives of a beekeeper and her teenage daughter are upended by the unexpected arrival of the woman's mother - not as a living, breathing person, but as an urn full of remains following her cremation.

Though Amanda (Sandra Oh) is clearly shaken by the news of her mother's death in Umma's first trailer, her daughter (Fivel Stewart) can't help but wonder why she'd never been properly introduced to her maternal grandmother. Amanda's loath to tell her why, specifically, she's worked so hard to keep her daughter seemingly cut off from other people out in the wilderness and somewhat in the dark about their family in South Korea. But after Amanda...

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