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Drama  •  2025  •  106 min

Young Mothers (2025)

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Young Mothers (2025)

Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Moderate
Family Values: Strongly Progressive
Islam: Negative
Viewer Rating
7.8

Overview

Young Mothers is a 2025 Belgian-French drama directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, centering on five young women in a Liège maternity shelter navigating early motherhood and survival challenges. Starring Babette Verbeek, Elsa Houben, Janaina Halloy, Lucie Laruelle, and Samia Hilmi. The film premiered at Cannes, winning the Best Screenplay award.

Starring Cast

Babette Verbeek  •   Elsa Houben  •   Janaina Halloy

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Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Leans Progressive

Primary

Political: Leans Left
Confidence: High

The film's portrayal of young mothers navigating poverty, abuse, and addiction through shelter-based communal aid underscores a reliance on social safety nets as the path to overcoming hardship. This emphasis on systemic intervention over individual effort shapes its progressive alignment.

Diversity: Moderate
Confidence: High

The film employs a diverse cast to portray young mothers from varied ethnic backgrounds in a Belgian shelter. It sympathetically examines their encounters with poverty and cultural pressures, subtly addressing social inequities without overt criticism of traditional identities.

Secondary

Family Values: Strongly Progressive
Confidence: High

The film critiques fractured biological families and unreliable partnerships as perpetuating cycles of abuse and poverty, while celebrating communal shelter support, single motherhood, and adoption as empowering alternatives for teen parents. This endorsement of chosen and institutional family models over traditional ones drives the progressive framing.

Islam: Negative
Confidence: High

A Muslim family's initial rejection of their single pregnant daughter stems from religious and cultural shame, framing conservative Islamic norms as harmful and isolating. Though reconciliation occurs later, the narrative emphasizes the damage caused by such rigidity, aligning with a critique of oppressive religious adherence.

LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: High

The film features no LGBTQ+ characters or themes, focusing instead on the challenges faced by young, straight mothers in a support shelter.

Trans: N/A
Confidence: Medium

No transsexual characters or themes feature in the film. It centers on the experiences of young cisgender mothers navigating hardship in a shelter, such as Jessica's efforts to reconnect with her adoptive family amid socioeconomic struggles.

Female Combat: N/R

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

Gender Swap: No
Confidence: High

The film presents original characters as teenage mothers in a Belgian shelter, with no source material, prior adaptations, or historical figures involving gender alterations in portrayals.

Race Swap: No
Confidence: Medium

Young Mothers presents original characters in a contemporary Belgian drama without prior source material establishing racial baselines, yielding no instances of race swaps.

Viewer Rating Breakdown

7.8

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

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7.0
The Movie Database logo
6.5

Critic Ratings

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9.5
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8.0

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