8.3
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
This Tempting Madness (2025)
This Tempting Madness (2025)
Overview
This Tempting Madness is a 2025 psychological thriller directed by Jennifer E. Montgomery. Simone Ashley stars as Mia, who awakens from a coma after a near-fatal fall, her memory fractured as she reconstructs her past and doubts reality. Co-starring Austin Stowell, Suraj Sharma, and Mojean Aria. Inspired by a true story.
Starring Cast
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Center
Diversity: High
Family Values: Mixed
Viewer Rating
8.3
Overview
This Tempting Madness is a 2025 psychological thriller directed by Jennifer E. Montgomery. Simone Ashley stars as Mia, who awakens from a coma after a near-fatal fall, her memory fractured as she reconstructs her past and doubts reality. Co-starring Austin Stowell, Suraj Sharma, and Mojean Aria. Inspired by a true story.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
The film's central conflict revolves around personal trauma and mental fragmentation, presenting an apolitical narrative centered on individual introspection rather than societal or ideological critiques.
The film casts a South Asian actress as the protagonist in an adaptation of real-life events, with her family also portrayed by actors of South Asian descent, creating visible diversity in key roles. The narrative centers on psychological recovery and fractured relationships without explicit critiques of traditional identities or broader DEI themes.
Secondary
A strained marriage anchors the protagonist's fractured recollections, with peripheral nods to her mother and brother, yet the narrative sidelines family dynamics in favor of psychological unraveling, yielding neutral portrayal without endorsement of traditional or progressive norms.
The film features no LGBTQ+ characters or themes, focusing instead on psychological tension surrounding memory and perception in a heterosexual family context.
The film contains no identifiable transgender characters or themes. Its narrative centers on a woman's psychological recovery and questioning of reality after a coma, without addressing transsexual identity.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
This Tempting Madness presents original characters in an screenplay inspired by true events, with no evidence of gender alterations from any canonical or historical baselines.
This Tempting Madness presents original characters in a psychological thriller inspired by a real but undocumented personal accident, lacking any prior canonical or historical racial baselines for portrayed figures, so no race swaps occur.
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