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Earth Mama
Directed by
Savanah Leaf
R
2023
1h 40m
Drama
6.6
97%
73%
Rent for $3.99
An intimate coming of age story of a pregnant single mother who embraces her Bay Area community as she determines the fate of her family.
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Cast of Earth Mama
Tia Nomore
Gia
Erika Alexander
Miss Carmen
Keta Price
Mel
Doechii
Trina
Sharon Duncan-Brewster
Monica
Bokeem Woodbine
Paul
Kami Jones
Amber
Slim Yani
Ari
Dominic Fike
Miles
Bruhfromlastnight
Earl
Marley Thompson
Short
James Allen
James
Amber Ramsey
Talia
Tina D'Elia
Jasmine
Alexis Rivas
Shaynah
Ca'Ron Jaden Coleman
Trey
Harry Chen
Photographer
Tina Robinson
Cashier
Nathan Hunter
Store Clerk
Anankha Pereira
Woman #1
La Keisha Fuller
Woman #2
Tavia Percia
Woman #3
Cheyann Orsua
Woman #4
Tiffany Garner
Woman #5
Qeashaun Thompson
Man #1
Mike Bigasan
Man #2
Marsai Jackson
Nurse #1
Davina Countee
Nurse #2
Cynthia Mosby
Grandmother
Dede Patterson
Best Friend #1
Joseph Nu'u Taugavau
Young Man
Clenetta Mars
Sister #1
Tia Taugavau
Young Woman
Kenneth Woodward
Sibling
Autumn Mirassou
Doctor
Vianca Turner
Radiology Tech
Toni Johnson
Miss Toni
Olivia Luccardi
Alexis
Angelica Gabriella Allen
Storekeeper (uncredited)
Kevin Berndt
Hospital Staff (uncredited)
Venee Call-Ferrer
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Cabran E. Chamberlain
Sideshow Spectator (uncredited)
Varsha Chand
Sideshow Spectator (uncredited)
JF Davis
Judge (uncredited)
Renysha 'Nee Nee' Franklin
Best Friend #2 (uncredited)
Leila Glenn
Patient #1 (uncredited)
Izzy
Sideshow Participant (uncredited)
Randy Lambert
Sideshow Participant (uncredited)
Alysia Lembkey
Sideshow Crowd Patron (uncredited)
Javon Mabon
Sideshow Spectator (uncredited)
Joseph Payne
Sideshow Spectator (uncredited)
Frank Scozzari
CPS Worker (uncredited)
Timothy A. Slater
Sideshow Spectator (uncredited)
Etienne Vick
CPS Suits (uncredited)
Corey Seaver
Rehab Student (uncredited)
Savanah Leaf
Director / Writer / Producer
Sam Bisbee
Producer
Cody Ryder
Producer
Shirley O'Connor
Producer
Medb Riordan
Producer
Earth Mama Ratings & Reviews
Kevin Ward
July 2, 2025
Earth Mama is an understated and authentically presented drama that finds Gia (Tia Nomore) fighting to reclaim her two children from foster care and pregnant with a third. Single and with no familiar support aside from the community around her, she faces mounting pressures from all sides to stand up and do right by her kids, while bureaucracies, addiction, poverty and the other harsh realities of life stack up against her. Wonderful direction from Savannah Leaf that keeps the drama rightfully grounded. Nomore really impressed me as well in her debut feature.
Washington Post
Omari Daniels
In Leaf's evenhanded telling, there are no perfect options - only a menu of imperfect ones.
Culture Mix
Carla Hay
Earth Mama has very impressive acting performances, but it doesn't offer any new ideas. It over-uses tiresome negative stereotypes of Black women as drug-addicted single mothers, while the diversity of Black women is muted or ignored in this movie.
HollywoodChicago.com
Patrick McDonald
The performances, especially Tia Nomore as Gia, are grounded and unsentimental in a way that produces a more compelling narrative. There was a nice emphasis on others willing to reach out and help, which generated hope in a seemingly no-hope scenario.
Third Coast Review
Steven Prokopy
A defiant act of vulnerability, and a plea to be given the smallest of breaks in a life that seems heartlessly devoid of them.
FilmWeek (LAist)
Tim Cogshell
I love the way this is constructed: she makes you work hard to empathize with these women... But she gets you there.
FilmWeek (LAist)
Manuel Betancourt
I was blown away by this film. Incredibly powerful.
RogerEbert.com
Peyton Robinson
"Earth Mama" is an unflinching, authentic portrait of when motherhood, sisterhood, and womanhood converge with class and race.
Los Angeles Times
Justin Chang
If the filmmaking feels poetic and subdued, it's the opposite of coy. Leaf is confident enough to let her images, as much as her written dialogue, do much of the narrative lifting.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
The film is intimate, modestly scaled and often so outwardly unassuming that you might not at first notice its artistry.
Rolling Stone
David Fear
Savanah Leaf's slice-of-life movie is full of these revelatory moments -- sometimes lyrical, sometimes gritty, often swirling the two together
San Jose Mercury News
Randy Myers
It's an evocative debut that immerses the audience into the reality of someone well deserving of our attention, and compassion.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
Leaf dramatizes Gia's conflicts in scenes of trenchant dialogue... which give voice to the multigenerational traumas of Black families torn apart for political purposes.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
"Earth Mama" raises the expectation that it's a portrait, not just of an issue, but of a person, and in most ways, it lives up to that.
Slant Magazine
Gregory Nussen
Despite Earth Mama's bleak subject matter, it exudes a beatific warmth, in large part because Leaf takes remarkable pains to dramatize a web of solidarity between a group of Black women alongside her depiction of the very system that disenfranchises them.
RogerEbert.com
Nick Allen
A wildly confident debut that displays Leaf's great control of performances and cinematography.
The Hollywood Reporter
Lovia Gyarkye
A delicate stunner.
TheWrap
Ronda Racha Penrice
Filmmaker Savanah Leaf began her career making music videos, and her feature debut reflects her ability to transmit great emotional depth in small snapshots.
The Playlist
Robert Daniels
"Earth Mama," therefore, demands viewers witness. And what viewers see is... unmistakable beauty...
Variety
Peter Debruge
"Earth Mama" offers a nuanced take on the proverbial notion that it takes a village to raise a child.
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