Father Mother Sister Brother

Name: Father Mother Sister Brother
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 2025-12-01
Duration: 1 h 51 min
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Charlotte Rampling, Cate Blanchett

Father Mother Sister Brother (2025)

Timing: 1:51 (111 min)

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Release date

2025-12-01

Country

United States, France, Ireland, Italy, Germany, United Kingdom

Production

Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, The Apartment Pictures, Saint Laurent, Hail Mary Pictures, CG Cinéma, Les Films du Losange, MUBI, Cinema Inutile, Badjetlag, Saint Laurent Productions, Weltkino, Vague Notion

Genre

Comedy, Drama

Budget

Box office

$7 693 345

Website

https://mubi.com/en/films/father-mother-sister-brother

Director

Jim Jarmusch

Actors

Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Charlotte Rampling, Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Sarah Greene, Indya Moore, Luka Sabbat, Françoise Lebrun
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Jim Jarmusch

Producer

Carter Logan, Atilla Salih Yücer, Joshua Astrachan, Charles Gillibert, Jim Jarmusch, Alex C. Lo, Anthony Vaccarello, Jason Ropell, Zane Meyer, Lorenzo Mieli

Camera operator

Yorick Le Saux

Composer

Jim Jarmusch

Artist

Mark Friedberg, Marco Bittner Rosser

Audition

Ellen Lewis

Editing

Affonso Gonçalves, Ivan Lafayette
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Short description

Estranged siblings reunite after years apart, forced to confront unresolved tensions and reevaluate their strained relationships with their emotionally distant parents.

What's left behind the scenes

According to director and screenwriter Jim Jarmusch, gathering material for a screenplay takes a long time, sometimes several years, while the actual writing process usually lasts about a month. It all began with the idea of casting Tom Waits and Adam Driver as father and son. Jarmusch wanted to emphasize the difference between them—not as real people, but as fictional characters.
Jim Jarmusch, by his own admission, is a fan of the television game show 'Jeopardy!' and, specifically, its host Maya Bialik. He imagined Bialik in the role of Emily, the sister of the character played by Adam Driver. After that, he envisioned Vicky Krieps and Cate Blanchett as sisters who were 'completely unlike one another,' and Charlotte Rampling as their mother.
The action of the third and final storyline unfolds in Paris, the second most significant city for director and screenwriter Jim Jarmusch. Having worked with India Moore and Luca Sabba before, Jarmusch didn't hesitate to cast them as twins in the final part of the film.
According to the script, the storyline of the 'Mother' chapter was supposed to take place in London; however, director and screenwriter Jim Jarmusch preferred to film in Dublin (a decision driven by tax incentives provided by Irish law). He found it amusing that the two daughters of Charlotte Rampling's character travel to Dublin to be closer to their writer mother, yet despite their good intentions, they hardly see her.