The Second Mother

Movie • 2015 • Drama  

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After leaving her daughter Jessica in a small town in Pernambuco to be raised by relatives, Val spends the next 13 years working as a nanny to Fabinho in São Paulo. She has financial stability but has to live with the guilt of having not raised Jessica herself. As Fabinho’s university entrance exams approach, Jessica reappears in her life and seems to want to give her mother a second chance. However, Jessica has not been raised to be a servant and her very existence will turn Val’s routine on its head. With precision and humour, the subtle and powerful forces that keep rigid class structures in place and how the youth may just be the ones to shake it all up.
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Does the dog die?
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Does a pet die?
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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Is there pedophilia?
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Drew67979
Jessica is 17 and Dr. Carlos is in his 40s or 50s. Probably not illegal, but still creepy and inappropriate.
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Is there a dead animal?
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Is a child abused?
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kelseyj610
Parental absenteeism is discussed.
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Does a horse die?
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Is an animal abandoned?
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kelseyj610
There's marijuana use & mentions.
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Are animals abused?
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Does a cat die?
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kelseyj610
I don't want to downplay anything by answering no, but the extent of it is that Dr. Carlos nuzzles Jéssica's neck after they hug (platonically), and she stops him. It's not violent or precisely sexual, but it's unwanted physical contact.
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Is someone tortured?
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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kelseyj610
(Spoiler) Dr. Carlos makes advances on Jéssica without his wife knowing.
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Does someone self harm?
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kelseyj610
A character declines a dessert and says "I'll get fat just looking at that," but there are no mean-spirited jokes at about fat people.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Vehicular
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A character is involved in a car accident off-screen (neither seen nor heard). She has a bandage on her forehead in the scenes following and they talk about it a little, but there's nothing graphic about it.
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