Run (2020 American film)

Run is a 2020 American psychological thriller film directed by Aneesh Chaganty and written by Chaganty and Sev Ohanian. The film stars Kiera Allen as a homeschooled teenager who begins to suspect her mother (Sarah Paulson) is keeping a dark secret from her.
"Run" was released on November 20, 2020, by Hulu, theatrically in other territories by Lionsgate, and was released internationally on April 2, 2021, by Netflix. The film received generally positive reviews. It became Hulu's most successful original film upon its release.
Plot.
Diane Sherman gives birth prematurely to a daughter whom she later sees lying in an incubator, surrounded by hospital staff. The screen reads the definitions of arrhythmia, hemochromatosis, asthma, diabetes, and paralysis. 
Seventeen years later in Pasco, Washington, her now-teenage and wheelchair using daughter Chloe awaits university acceptance letters but Diane repeatedly stops her from seeing the mail. Chloe finds green capsules prescribed to her mother. Chloe checks the bottle and finds a pharmacy label with her name covering Diane's. She tries to look up the name of the drug, Trigoxin, but their internet no longer works. She dials a stranger from her mom's bedroom, where the only landline in the house is, and asks him to look up the drug. The man tells her it's a heart medication and that all pictures of the medication show a small red pill. 
Chloe asks her mother to take her to the movies. During the movie, while pretending to go to the bathroom, she rushes to the pharmacy across the street. The pharmacist refuses to tell her what the medication is at first but eventually reveals that it's a relaxant called Ridocaine, meant for dogs. When Chloe asks what would happen if a human took the medication, the pharmacist says that one's legs could go numb and Chloe begins to hyperventilate. Her mother finds and sedates her and takes her home.
Chloe wakes up in bed and finds her door locked and chained so she is unable to escape. When she notices her mother's car isn't there, she drags herself out of the window, eventually making her way to her mother's bedroom window. She begins to have an asthma attack and rushes for her inhaler. She tries to get on the ramp that allows her to go downstairs, but the wires have been cut. Chloe throws her wheelchair down the stairs and tumbles down after it.
On the road, she sees the mail truck and rushes to stop it. She explains what her mother is doing as Diane drives past, spotting Chloe's wheelchair and stopping. The driver tells Diane he can't let her take Chloe, and Chloe tells the mailman she wants to go to police. However, while he is closing up the van to take Chloe to the police station, Diane stabs him with a sedative syringe. Chloe awakes in the basement with her wheelchair chained. 
In the basement, she discovers all of her college acceptance letters, photos, a death certificate that shows a girl named Chloe died two hours after her birth, as well as an article about a couple who had their baby stolen. She finds a picture of herself as a toddler, walking. When Diane enters, Chloe accuses her of factitious disorder imposed on another and asks if she was ever really sick. Diane insists everything she ever did was to help and protect Chloe, while filling a syringe with paint thinner to make her forget. Chloe is able to crawl away and lock herself in a cupboard. Afraid her mother might try to kill her, and realizing her mother needs her, Chloe drinks from a bottle of organophosphate, forcing Diane to rush her to hospital.
Chloe wakes in a hospital bed unable to move or speak, with Diane watching through the window. After suspicions from a doctor questioning why Chloe has had a dozen primary doctor changes in the past six years, she signals to a nurse, who brings her pen and paper. A code blue is called and the nurse rushes out. Diane takes advantage and sneaks in to retrieve Chloe. The nurse finds Chloe missing, with "mom" written on the paper. Security is informed. Rushing to escape to the car, Diane pushes Chloe towards the exit but is stopped by stairs. Pulling out her gun, she panics and Chloe locks the chair so Diane can't move her. After telling Chloe she just wants to protect her, Chloe says she doesn't need Diane as the police show up. Diane raises her gun and they shoot her in the arm, causing her to fall down the stairs. 
Seven years later, Chloe wheels in to a correctional facility, and uses her cane to go through the metal detector, showing she has gained partial mobility in her legs again. She visits someone in the infirmary ward, and begins talking about her wonderful husband, children and job. The screen pans to her decrepit, sick mother, immobile in bed. Pulling the green pills out of her mouth, Chloe tells her mother she loves her and tells her to open wide.
Production.
In June 2018, it was announced Lionsgate would produce, distribute, and finance the film, with Aneesh Chaganty directing, from a screenplay he wrote alongside Sev Ohanian. Ohanian and Natalie Qasabian produced the film. In October 2018, Sarah Paulson joined the cast of the film, and in December 2018, Kiera Allen was set to star as well.
Principal photography in Winnipeg, Canada began on October 31, 2018, and wrapped on December 18, 2018.
Torin Borrowdale composed the film's score, as he previously collaborated with Chaganty in "Searching". According to Borrowdale, the goal for the film's musical direction was to achieve "the essence of Bernard Herrmann, but for a 2020 cinematic experience."
Release.
Theatrical and streaming.
"Run" was scheduled to be theatrically released on May 8, 2020, coinciding with Mother's Day weekend. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was pulled, and Lionsgate intended to announce a new release date "once there is more clarity on when movie theaters" will reopen. It had previously been scheduled to be released on January 24, 2020. In August 2020, Hulu acquired American distribution rights to the film, and released it on their service on November 20, 2020. Netflix picked up international rights to "Run" and began streaming it outside the United States on April 2, 2021.
Reception.
Audience viewership.
Following its debut weekend, Hulu reported that "Run" was the most-watched original film in the platform's history, as well as the most talked about on Twitter.
Critical response.
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 89% based on 123 reviews, with an average rating of 7.1/10. The site's critics consensus reads, "Solid acting and expertly ratcheted tension help "Run" transcend its familiar trappings to deliver a delightfully suspenseful thriller." On Metacritic, it has a weighted average score of 67 out of 100, based on 20 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews."
Jessica Gomez of "AllHorror.com" wrote, "If you're like me and you were captivated by the story of Gypsy Rose and her mother Dee Dee Blanchard, then I've got a psychological thriller with your name on it." Ryan Lattanzio of IndieWire gave the film a "C+" and said, "There's enough go-for-broke and whiplash-inducing shifts in tone on display to suggest this filmmaking duo has a future, even when their characters don't seem to have a past." 
Rahul Desai of "Film Companion" wrote, "The film doubles up as an allegory and indictment of modern parenting – the control disguised as caregiving, the lack of identity, the incessant smothering, the manipulation, and the blurred line between selflessness and selfishness"