Sew Torn

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Sew Torn

May 2025

1h 35m

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Mystery & Thriller

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Barbara Duggen, 'The Mobile Seamstress', is struggling to keep her fabric shop alive. After a botched sewing appointment sets her on a quest to replace her client's lost button, she unexpectedly stumbles upon a drug deal gone bad. Faced with two downed motorcyclists, guns, and a briefcase -- Barbara is completely torn. She is forced to pick between three choices: commit the perfect crime, call the police, or drive away. The narrative presents the repercussions of all three decisions, and the deadly confrontations that result from each as she gets entangled with the case's owner. Using thread to free herself, Barbara stops at nothing to save her store.

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Critics Consensus

Stitching together different outcomes of the same premise into an intriguing whole, Sew Torn is an inventive and promising feature debut from writer-director Freddy Macdonald.

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Tim Cogshell

FilmWeek (LAist)

Very clever, but I've seen this story a few hundred times in my life.

Jun 12, 2025

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Sheila O'Malley

RogerEbert.com

“Sew Torn” isn’t a genre exercise, not really. It’s more of an off-kilter riff on the familiar.

Rated: 3/4

May 9, 2025

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Meagan Navarro

Bloody Disgusting

Macdonald nestles Run Lola Run’s loop-like structure inside a cozy crime thriller, the type that comes heavily armed with a sense of whimsy, if a bit subdued.

Rated: 3/5

May 6, 2025

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Karina Adelgaard

Heaven of Horror

...turned out to be a real delight to watch. It’s difficult to explain exactly why this movie works so well, but it’s obviously the combination of the plot, its execution, and the actors bringing it all together.

Rated: 3/5

Oct 31, 2025

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Debbie Lynn Elias

Behind The Lens

Sew Torn is creative and original, visually vibrant and stimulating, whimsical and a bit quirky, and quite entertaining and fun, with everything perfectly threaded through the cinematic needle to create a fabulous tapestry.

Rated: 4/5

Jul 16, 2025

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MaryAnn Johanson

Flick Filosopher

The quirks of this slightly fantastical black-comedy crime thriller are many, varied, and messily disjointed. But there’s a delicious oddness to its unpredictability and its spin on familiar tropes.

Rated: 3/5

Jun 20, 2025

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prawnda s

slow and derivative story. decent performances all around, but the lack of plausibility and lack of jokes about that lack of plausibility make it a bit strange for everything to be about sewing and strings and yarn. it doesnt matter how many pulleys you use, a single thread cannot drag the weight of a grown man across a floor. i don't think the movie is objectively bad, but it was deeply uninteresting to me. maybe try something like sweetpea instead if you want some accidental femme fatale vibes.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

11/16/25

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Andrew L.

Weird. Kind of a strange trap building savant with thread. Meh.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

11/15/25

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Sam H

Big yes to this movie. My wife doesn't watch horror, but at the end I realized this was not in that category, maybe a thriller/fantasy? The many ways she uses her skills as a seamstress to get out of a jam adds fantasy to the categories. Lead Eve Connolly has done other roles, but she definitely has James Bond girl potential- but then she probably wouldn't have been cast in this superb and original indie. Hmmm.... might watch again with the missus?

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

11/08/25

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Stoner J

This was a good surprise with the perfect ending

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

11/02/25

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Courtney K

this was fun! i didn't know what this was before i started & was very pleasantly surprised; an interesting way to tell a story with an interesting main character.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

11/01/25

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Logan D

Struggling to maintain her business, a seamstress (Eve Connelly) comes across a botched drug deal. What happens afterwards depends on which thread she pulls. A very clever and interesting film that presents three stories based on the decisions the seamstress makes. It's whimsical and I'm skeptical how well she can construct a threaded trap but it's certainly not generic. Recommended

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

10/19/25

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Synopsis

Barbara Duggen, 'The Mobile Seamstress', is struggling to keep her fabric shop alive. After a botched sewing appointment sets her on a quest to replace her client's lost button, she unexpectedly stumbles upon a drug deal gone bad. Faced with two downed motorcyclists, guns, and a briefcase -- Barbara is completely torn. She is forced to pick between three choices: commit the perfect crime, call the police, or drive away. The narrative presents the repercussions of all three decisions, and the deadly confrontations that result from each as she gets entangled with the case's owner. Using thread to free herself, Barbara stops at nothing to save her store.

Director: Freddy Macdonald
Producer: Fred Macdonald, Barry Navidi, Sebastian Klinger, Diamantis Zavitsanos, Socratis Zavitsanos
Screenwriter: Freddy Macdonald, Fred Macdonald
Distributor: Sunrise Films
Production Co: Macdonald Entertainment Partners, Barry Navidi Productions, ORISONO
Genre: Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 9, 2025, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 13, 2025
Runtime: 1h 35m

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