Bloody Mama

Why tonight?

• ◆Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
• ◆It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.

The story

Sexually abused as a young girl, Kate "Ma" Barker grows into a violent and powerful woman by the 1930s. She lovingly dominates her grown sons and grooms them into a pack of tough crooks. The boys include the cruel Herman, who still shares a bed with Ma; Fred, an ex-con who fell in love with a fellow prisoner; and Lloyd, who gets high on whatever's handy. Together they form a deadly, bizarre family of Depression-era bandits.

• prison
• suicide
• rape
• sexual abuse
• gangster
• based on true story
• dysfunctional family
• murder
• bank robbery
• incest