When her mentally ill, elderly mother begins mutilating herself, Jessie (Kim Basinger) returns to her hometown to care for her. Among familiar surroundings, she tends to her mother's deteriorating mental condition while learning of troubling revelations about her family history. Meanwhile, though married, Jessie reconnects with old passions -- including a turbulent affair with a monk named Hugh (Bruce Greenwood).
The Mermaid Chair has generally received mixed reviews.
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The Mermaid Chair was released in 2006 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 9 reviews, giving The Mermaid Chair (2006) an average rating of 42%.
Overall, cinema-goers much prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 62%, compared to film critics, who gave it a considerably lower average score of 0%. Amateur reviewers enjoyed The Mermaid Chair a lot more than professional critics.
With a score of 42%, The Mermaid Chair is below the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2006, which stands at 59%.
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