Sew Torn

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Sew Torn

2025

1h 35m

Comedy

Mystery & Thriller

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Barbara Duggen, 'The Mobile Seamstress', is struggling to keep her fabric shop alive. After a botched sewing appointment sets her on a quest to replace her client's lost button, she unexpectedly stumbles upon a drug deal gone bad. Faced with two downed motorcyclists, guns, and a briefcase -- Barbara is completely torn. She is forced to pick between three choices: commit the perfect crime, call the police, or drive away. The narrative presents the repercussions of all three decisions, and the deadly confrontations that result from each as she gets entangled with the case's owner. Using thread to free herself, Barbara stops at nothing to save her store.

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Critics Consensus

Stitching together different outcomes of the same premise into an intriguing whole, Sew Torn is an inventive and promising feature debut from writer-director Freddy Macdonald.

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Tim Cogshell

FilmWeek (LAist)

Jun 12

Very clever, but I've seen this story a few hundred times in my life.

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Sheila O'Malley

RogerEbert.com

May 9

3/4

“Sew Torn” isn’t a genre exercise, not really. It’s more of an off-kilter riff on the familiar.

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Meagan Navarro

Bloody Disgusting

May 6

3/5

Macdonald nestles Run Lola Run’s loop-like structure inside a cozy crime thriller, the type that comes heavily armed with a sense of whimsy, if a bit subdued.

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Karina Adelgaard

Heaven of Horror

Oct 31

3/5

...turned out to be a real delight to watch. It’s difficult to explain exactly why this movie works so well, but it’s obviously the combination of the plot, its execution, and the actors bringing it all together.

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Debbie Lynn Elias

Behind The Lens

Jul 16

4/5

Sew Torn is creative and original, visually vibrant and stimulating, whimsical and a bit quirky, and quite entertaining and fun, with everything perfectly threaded through the cinematic needle to create a fabulous tapestry.

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MaryAnn Johanson

Flick Filosopher

Jun 20

3/5

The quirks of this slightly fantastical black-comedy crime thriller are many, varied, and messily disjointed. But there’s a delicious oddness to its unpredictability and its spin on familiar tropes.

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Dylan B

@thevandalstookthehandles 3d

brilliant! very clever creation, with a beautifully wrapped up finale

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Everett S

@Evscott73 5d

This is a great film full of twists and turns and in the end the right choice was reached well done!!!

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Horror fan 4

@Horrorfan4life Jan 28

Who'd a thought with needle and thread you can do so much damage. This is absolute classic. One of the best crime thrillers to date. I love the fact that we get three different scenarios in one movie. Loved the lead performance. The characters were really good and the diner scene is my favorite. Tim Treakle

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Bill T.

@btreakle Jan 21

“Sew Torn”And eve Connelly it’s a pretty good movie it had some twists and turns and several possible outcomes at the end of the movie would have needed force to end. No I have never personally China will be by eternally before she doesn’t really good job in this one here and even though most of the ratings averaged about 6.0 I’m going to give this one 7 out of 10 stars.Is it will be about once shelters starting dire situations and how you react situations.and I highly recommend this film.

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Robert C

@Rconroy Jan 11

This was a waste of time. Very strange.

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Kyle M

Jan 9

Writer-director Freddy Macdonald’s advantageous expansion for his short film enabled thematic enlargement, intellectually executed and thematically expressed in regard to weighing decision-making through layered, moderately performed character study. (B+)

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Synopsis

Barbara Duggen, 'The Mobile Seamstress', is struggling to keep her fabric shop alive. After a botched sewing appointment sets her on a quest to replace her client's lost button, she unexpectedly stumbles upon a drug deal gone bad. Faced with two downed motorcyclists, guns, and a briefcase -- Barbara is completely torn. She is forced to pick between three choices: commit the perfect crime, call the police, or drive away. The narrative presents the repercussions of all three decisions, and the deadly confrontations that result from each as she gets entangled with the case's owner. Using thread to free herself, Barbara stops at nothing to save her store.

Director: Freddy Macdonald
Producer: Fred Macdonald, Barry Navidi, Sebastian Klinger, Diamantis Zavitsanos, Socratis Zavitsanos
Screenwriter: Freddy Macdonald, Fred Macdonald
Distributor: Sunrise Films
Production Co: Macdonald Entertainment Partners, Barry Navidi Productions, ORISONO
Genre: Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 9, 2025, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 13, 2025
Runtime: 1h 35m

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