Anne Hathaway ‘Mothers’ Instinct’ Hulu Movie Review: Stream It Or Skip It? [Video]

Mothers’ Instinct (now streaming on Hulu) pairs Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain for a bit of noirish melodrama that’s a remake of 2018 French-language film Duelles, itself an adaptation of a novel by Barbara Abel. The thought of two multi-Oscar-nominated actresses, surely among the best of their generation, going toe-to-toe as mid-century nextdoor-neighbor stay-at-home moms working their way through a rather tense frenemies period? Sounds delicious, if it’s done right, which, well, let’s get into that, shall we?

The Gist:It’s 1960. Suburbia. Immaculate lawns. Waxed behemoth automobiles. Commuting fathers and stay-at-home mothers. Coifs and heels and strings of pearls. Alice (Chastain) walks into the house, opens a drawer and pulls out an approx. 47-inch gleaming kitchen knife – to cut a birthday cake! Oh boy. Should we prepare ourselves for some eyebrow-raising melodramatic juiciness? Um, no. This little bait-and-switch with the Sears and Roebuck samurai sword hints at the pulp that’ll take more …