Your mom's job just became your middle school's hottest gossip. Awkward.
When 13-year-old Cricket walks past the local strip club with his friends, nothing can prepare him for who they see walking into work: his mom. With rumors starting to spread, Cricket must take matters into his own hands to clear his mom's name and prove that she isn't a stripper.
Acting
Fenix Taylor's mortified physical comedy sells every second.
Direction
Sneed packs a feature's worth of social tension into 13 minutes.
Director
Anthony Sneed
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Crystle Lightning (Mom) is a prominent Indigenous actress; the film quietly centers Native working-class experience without exoticizing it.
The title's bait-and-switch critiques how quickly 'stripper' becomes shorthand for 'bad mother' in American moral panic.
US
