"Echo Valley" Trailer: Julianne Moore Faces a Mother's Dilemma in This New Thriller About Protecting Her Daughter at Any Cost, with Sydney Sweeney
Moore stars as a mother who must decide whether to help her daughter (Sydney Sweeney) cover up a deadly crime or face the consequences in this Apple original movie.
Every parent, at least the decent ones, would never want to see their child in trouble or in sheer pain. But there’s a thin line between being there for your kids and enabling them. No parent wants to be merely a placemat for their child to walk all over. But when does a parent reach a point where they must throw their hands up and say, “You are an adult now, and you must be on your own, no matter how bad the situation you got yourself in”? Sometimes, that moment never comes for some parents. And therein lies the drama.
In Echo Valley, the upcoming thriller for Apple TV+, Oscar winner Julianne Moore plays Kate, a benevolent mother who desperately wants the best for her daughter. The thing is, Kate’s daughter, Claire (played by Sydney Sweeney), can’t help but constantly find herself in hot water, always getting into some kind of trouble and unable to deal with the circumstances, let alone the consequences.
When one night, Claire arrives at Kate’s doorstep, crying uncontrollably and mumbling something about her abusive boyfriend, Kate discovers that Claire might have done something very bad... something she can’t walk away from, nor can she undo.
Claire explains she hit her boyfriend with a rock, an impact so hard he never recovered from. Now, with a wrapped dead body in the back seat of Claire’s car, Kate is faced with two options: call the police immediately in the hopes that her daughter can claim self-defense in her boyfriend’s murder, or... help her cover it up and find a way to make the problem disappear. Get rid of the evidence and such.
What would a mother do? What lengths would a mother go to protect her child, despite her own morals and the cost to herself? In the case of Julianne Moore’s Kate, she risks everything.
But just when you think she might have gotten away with it, Domhnall Gleeson (Ex Machina, Star Wars: The Force Awakens) shows up as a shady character who actually knows what went down and is not too eager to let Kate and Claire off the hook. Now, Kate finds herself at a point of no return, and every choice she makes from now on could lead to either her salvation or her complete destruction.
Sure, sometimes having children is a blessing, but then they can also be the devil in disguise. And there’s nothing more intensely unpredictable than the dynamics between mother and daughter. It’s love, but with a side of chaos and emotional warfare.
Co-starring Kyle MacLachlan and Fiona Shaw, Echo Valley is written and produced by Brad Ingelsby, the creator and writer of the Emmy-award-winning HBO murder-mystery miniseries Mare of Easttown, starring Kate Winslet as a Philly detective grappling with personal issues as well as the murder of a young woman. Ingelsby is also known as the screenwriter of the equally tense drama The Way Back, with Ben Affleck as a recovering alcoholic turned basketball coach.
Directed by Michael Pearce, who previously wrote and directed the 2017 British psychological thriller Beast and the 2021 crime thriller Encounter, Echo Valley is slated to premiere exclusively on Apple TV+ starting on June 13th.
Official Synopsis:
In the edge-of-your-seat thriller Echo Valley, Kate (Oscar winner Julianne Moore) is a mother struggling to make peace with her troubled daughter Claire (multi-Emmy nominee Sydney Sweeney) — a situation that becomes even more perilous when Claire shows up on Kate’s doorstep, hysterical and covered in someone else’s blood. As Kate pieces together the shocking truth of what happened, she learns just how far a mother will go to try to save her child in this gripping tale of love, sacrifice and survival from BAFTA-winning director Michael Pearce and Emmy-nominated writer Brad Ingelsby.
