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  1. Hereditary. Jump to Edit. Summaries. A grieving family is haunted by tragic and disturbing occurrences. When her mentally ill mother passes away, Annie (Toni Collette), her husband (Gabriel Byrne), son (Alex Wolff), and daughter (Milly Shapiro) all mourn her loss.

  2. Miniature artist Annie Graham lives with her psychiatrist husband Steve and their two children, 16-year-old son Peter and 13-year-old daughter Charlie. The family attends the funeral of Annie's secretive mother, Ellen, at which Annie is surprised at the number of mourners in attendance.

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    Annie Graham is a miniatures artist who lives in Utah with her husband, Steve; their 16-year-old son, Peter; and their 13-year-old daughter, Charlie. At the funeral of her secretive mother, Ellen Leigh, Annie delivers a eulogy explaining their fraught relationship and her mother's extremely private life. A week after, Steve is informed that Ellen's...

    Toni Collette as Annie Graham
    Alex Wolff as Peter Graham
    Milly Shapiro as Charlie Graham
    Gabriel Byrne as Steve Graham
    The entire interior of the Graham house was built on a sound stage.
    The original cut of the film was over 3 hours. Mostly consisting of more family character development.
    Ari wanted any effect that could be done practically to be done that way, instead of in post production.
    To make the chalkboard write on itself, the special effects team put a magnet in the chalk and put a magnet on the other side of the chalkboard to make the chalk move.

    Development:

    Writer-director Ari Aster originally pitched Hereditary as a family tragedy before emending his script into a supernatural horror film in hopes of enticing distributors. A fan of domestic dramas, Aster incorporated themes of the genre into his script, envisioning a film rooted in family dynamics, trauma, and grief. He interpreted the film as two halves which are "completely inextricable from each other": "It begins as a family tragedy and then continues down that path, but gradually curdles i...

    Casting:

    Toni Collette was one of the first actresses Aster sought for the role of Annie Graham, a miniaturist and the matriarch of the Graham family. Though Collette was reluctant to work on a horror film, the script's grounded approach to the genre convinced her to commit to the project: "He [Aster] just really understood the dynamics in the family, has such an understanding of what it is to be human, what it is to experience loss". Gabriel Byrne agreed to play the family's patriarch Steve; Alex Wol...

    Filming:

    The film began shooting in February 2017 in Utah. The exteriors of the Graham family house and the tree house were shot in Summit County, Utah, and the school scenes were shot at West High School and Utah State Fairpark, but all other interiors (including both versions of the treehouse) were built from scratch on a sound stage. Since each of the rooms was built on a stage, walls could be removed to shoot scenes at a much greater distance than a practical location would allow, creating the dol...

  3. Jun 8, 2018 · Toni Collette stars as Annie Graham, an artist and mother who’s coping with the death of her mother while trying to finish an exhibition of dioramas that appear to depict her own family’s life and Annie’s internal state. Alex Wolff is Annie’s oldest child, Peter, a sad-eyed pothead drifting through life.

  4. Jun 20, 2018 · Hereditary review: A hugely divisive, slow-burning supernatural horror. Who are the Graham family? Toni Collette is the mother Annie Graham, who is a miniature artist who has just...

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  5. Aug 13, 2023 · Hereditary is an extreme metaphor for inherited medical issues and trauma passed down through generations. What is Hereditary about? Hereditary is a film that explores family trauma, grief, faith, and mental health.

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  7. May 3, 2021 · Hereditary is in essence a film dominated at its core by a form of collective, cross generational familial memory. Its central characters are infatuated with the memory of lost family members and it is this memory which returns to haunt the family rather than merely the supernatural entities themselves that, from a narrative perspective, the ...

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