Taglines: You can’t escape a mother’s love.
Run Movie Storyline. Chloe, a teenage wheelchair user, is home schooled by her mother. However, her mother’s strange behavior doesn’t go unnoticed and when Chloe pries into some private papers, she discovers a Change of Name Certificate document with her mother’s name, Diane Sherman, on it. When Chloe googles “Diane Sherman,” the internet suddenly disconnects. Chloe becomes suspicious of all that her mother does, suspecting her of something sinister. She decides to go on the run in her wheelchair in a desperate attempt to get away from her.
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 Chloe Sherman, a disabled homeschooled teenager who begins to suspect that her mother Diane (Sarah Paulson) is keeping a dark secret about her upbringing.
The film was announced in June 2018, with Paulson being cast that October and Allen that December. Principal photography also occurred in that time frame, with filming primarily taking place on location in Winnipeg, Manitoba. 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.
About the Story
A woman named 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, Diane lives a quiet life with her now-teenaged daughter, Chloe.
Due to the circumstances of her birth, Chloe uses a wheelchair and a stairlift, regularly takes various medications, is homeschooled by her mother, and carries an inhaler for her asthma. She is currently waiting for university acceptance letters, but Diane always collects the mail.
One morning, Chloe is looking for a tin of chocolates in a bag of groceries and finds a bottle of green pills with Diane’s name on the label. When questioned, Diane claims that this was merely the receipt wrapped around the container. However, when Chloe later inspects the bottle, she finds that a label bearing her name has been pasted over the original, which has been partially scraped off but is still legible enough to show Diane as the patient.
Chloe tries to look up the name of the drug, Trigoxin, but discovers that the house has no Internet connection. She dials a stranger from her mother’s bedroom, which has the only working phone, and asks him to look up the drug. The man tells her it is 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 film, 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 Chloe eventually tricks her into revealing that it is a relaxant called Ridocaine, which is only approved for dogs. When Chloe asks what would happen if a human took the medication, the pharmacist informs her that it could numb one’s legs. Chloe begins to hyperventilate when Diane suddenly runs in. She discreetly sedates her daughter and takes her home.
Chloe wakes up in bed and finds her door locked and chained while Diane is out running an errand. Realizing that she has the house to herself, Chloe drags herself onto the roof, eventually making her way to her mother’s bedroom and breaking the window with a soldering iron and some water.
She begins to have an asthma attack and only barely manages to crawl to her room and retrieve her inhaler. She tries to use her automated wheelchair ramp to go downstairs, but finds that Diane has cut the power cord. Chloe is forced to throw her wheelchair down the stairs and accidentally falls, sustaining minor injuries but also discovering that she can move one of her toes.
On the road, she sees the mail truck and rushes to stop it. She explains her situation to the postal worker, who agrees to help. However, Diane then 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 the police. However, while he is closing up the van to take Chloe to the police station, Diane stabs him with a sedative syringe. Chloe blacks out, and when she awakes, she is in the basement of her house, with her wheelchair chained to a steel pole.
Run (2020)
Directed by: Aneesh Chaganty
Starring: Sarah Paulson, Kiera Allen, Pat Healy, Sara Sohn, Sharon Bajer, Tony Revolori, Carter Heinz, Conan Hodgkinson, Erica Jenkins, Emma Jonnz, Steve Pacaud, Derek James Trapp
Screenplay by: Aneesh Chaganty, Sev Ohanian
Production Design by: Jean-Andre Carriere
Cinematography by: Hillary Fyffe Spera
Film Editing by: Nick Johnson, Will Merrick
Costume Design by: Heather Neale
Set Decoration by: Chad Giesbrecht, Sara McCudden
Art Direction by: Bruce Cook, Gary Barringer
Music by: Torin Borrowdale
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for disturbing thematic content, some violence/terror and language.
Distributed by: Hulu (United States), Netflix (International)
Release Date: November 20, 2020 (United States)
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