Run (2020 American film)

Diane Sherman gives birth prematurely to an infant whom she later sees lying in an incubator, surrounded by hospital staff. Seventeen years later in Pasco, Washington, Diane homeschools and serves as sole caretaker of her wheelchair-using daughter, Chloe, who is chronically ill. Chloe awaits a university acceptance letter. Diane insists she is eager to see Chloe leaving home to begin college, yet repeatedly stops Chloe from seeing the mail before her.

Chloe finds green capsules prescribed to her mother while looking in a bag of groceries. Diane later gives one to Chloe, claiming it is Trigoxin prescribed to Chloe. Chloe checks the bottle and finds a pharmacy label with her name covering a label with Diane's. She tries to look up Trigoxin online, but their home internet no longer works. She dials a stranger and asks him to look up the drug for her. He tells her Trigoxin treats heart conditions and is a red capsule.

Chloe asks to go to the movies with her mother. During the film, she sneaks across the street to the pharmacy and asks about the green pill. The pharmacist says it is a muscle relaxant for dogs, prescribed to Diane's (non-existent) dog, which may cause leg paralysis if ingested by humans. As Chloe has an asthma attack, Diane locates her and injects her with a sedative without being seen. Chloe wakes up in the house, locked in her bedroom. Although Diane has sabotaged the phones and mobile stairlift, Chloe manages to escape the house. Badly injured, she flags down the mailman. Diane arrives shortly after and, after failing to convince him to let her take Chloe, kills him.

Chloe awakes in the basement with her wheelchair chained. She discovers her college acceptance letter in the trash as well as a box of photos and documents that show Diane's real daughter died two hours after birth and that Diane stole baby Chloe, who could walk as a small child. Diane enters and offers to start afresh. Chloe accuses Diane of committing factitious disorder imposed on another and asks if she was ever genuinely sick. Diane denies the accusations and insists she did everything to help Chloe. Diane fills a syringe with household neurotoxins. Chloe escapes into a storage room and drinks from a bottle of organophosphate, forcing Diane to hospitalize her.

Chloe awakes in a hospital bed, weak and unable to speak while intubated. Diane sets off the alarm and kidnaps Chloe before she can be questioned. When Diane pauses at the top of an escalator, Chloe moves her feet to stop the wheelchair. Meanwhile, a nurse has discovered Chloe is missing and alerts security, who reach Chloe and Diane. Diane threatens them with a gun and is shot. Seven years later, Chloe still uses a wheelchair but has partial use of her legs. She regularly visits Diane, who is bedridden in prison. Chloe updates Diane about her marriage, child, and career. Chloe spits out the canine muscle relaxers her mother used to give her and says "I love you, Mom. Now open wide."

• Sarah Paulson as Diane Sherman
• Kiera Allen as Chloe Sherman
• Pat Healy as Mailman Tom
• Sara Sohn as Nurse Kammy
• Sharon Bajer as Kathy Bates, an homage to the actress of the same name.[4]
• Tony Revolori as Brooklyn Boy (voice)

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.[5] In October 2018, Sarah Paulson joined the cast of the film.[6] In December 2018, Kiera Allen joined the cast of the film.[7]

Principal photography in Winnipeg, Canada began on October 31, 2018, and wrapped on December 18, 2018.[8]

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."[9]

Run was scheduled to be released on May 8, 2020, coinciding with Mother's Day weekend.[10] However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was pulled from the schedule. Lionsgate intended to announce a new release date "once there is more clarity on when movie theaters" will reopen.[11] It was previously scheduled to be released on January 24, 2020.[12] In August 2020, Hulu acquired American distribution rights to the film,[13] and released on their service on November 20, 2020.[14]

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