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Amy Adams and Marielle Heller put all of their motherhood experiences into 'Nightbitch'
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Marielle Heller, left, the writer/director of "Nightbitch," and the film's star Amy Adams pose for a portrait during the Toronto International Film Festival, Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024, in Toronto. - photo by AP Photo/Chris Pizzello
TORONTO (AP) — The day after the premiere of their film “Nightbitch,” Amy Adams and Marielle Heller are sitting in a Toronto restaurant reflecting on all that went into, as Heller puts it, “birthing” a movie that captures some of the truest, rawest but seldom Instagrammed things about early motherhood. Their film, which writer-director Heller has described as a comedy for women and a horror film for men, stars Adams as a woman credited only as “Mother.” With her husband (Scoot McNairy) often away on work (and when he’s there, he refers to solo parenting as “babysitting”), Adams’ character experiences a wide range of emotions raising a newborn. She is exhausted and resentful.