Martha Marcy May Marlene
You can get away, but you can never escape.
After several years of living with a cult, Martha finally escapes and calls her estranged sister, Lucy, for help.Martha finds herself at the quiet Connecticut home Lucy shares with her new husband, Ted, but the memories of what she experienced in the cult make peace hard to find.
- Worldwide
- $4M
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Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
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After several years of living with a cult, Martha finally escapes and calls her estranged sister, Lucy, for help. Martha finds herself at the quiet Connecticut home Lucy shares with her new husband, Ted, but the memories of what she experienced in the cult make peace hard to find. As flashbacks continue to torment her, Martha fails to shake a terrible sense of dread, especially in regard to the cult's manipulative leader.
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Box Office & Release
Martha Marcy May Marlene returned 3.5× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $1M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
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- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $4M
- Release date
- Oct 21, 2011
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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