Mothers' Instinct

Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway star in this tale of bitterness across the picket fence as two neighbours face off as paranoid frenemies. Celine (Hathaway) is trying to stabilise her life after a tragic loss; next door is Alice (Chastain), homemaking for her son and husband. Their friendship hides envy, rivalry and discord, threatening to boil over as the ice tea and martinis flow…

Fitting neatly between the suburban nightmares of Don’t Worry Darling and Mad Men, Mothers’ Instinct is relief for the drought of adult thrillers in recent years, taking two of modern cinema’s barnstorming female leads and placing them in a thrilling love-hate dynamic.