Searchlight Pictures has made a film adaptation of Rachel Yoder’s novel, Nightbitch. It stars Amy Adams as a woman who, as the newly released trailer makes clear, has lost herself after becoming a stay-at-home mom to a toddler and ultimately ends up turning into a dog at night.
Is it weird to say that, as a mom to a four-year-old, this premise is extremely relatable?
Here’s the blurb from the book, which the trailer appears to hue closely to:
At home full-time with her two-year-old son, an artist finds she is struggling. She is lonely and exhausted. She had imagined—what was it she had imagined? Her husband, always travelling for his work, calls her from faraway hotel rooms. One more toddler bedtime, and she fears she might lose her mind.
Instead, quite suddenly, she starts gaining things, surprising things that happen one night when her child will not sleep. Sharper canines. Strange new patches of hair. New appetites, new instincts. And from deep within herself, a new voice…
The adaptation comes from writer-director Marielle Heller, whose previous credits include directing 2015’s The Diary of a Teenage Girl and an episode of Transparent. She’s also an actor who had roles in The Queen’s Gambit and MacGruber. In addition to Adams, the film stars Scoot McNairy, Arleigh Patrick Snowden, Emmett James Snowden, Zoë Chao, Mary Holland, Archana Rajan, and Jessica Harper.
Nightbitch is set to premiere in select theaters sometime in December 2024.
Check out the trailer below.
