What Happened to Monday (2017)

In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own.

Director:

Tommy Wirkola

Writers:

Max Botkin, Kerry Williamson

Stars:

Noomi Rapace, Glenn Close, Willem Dafoe

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Noomi Rapace	...	The Settman Siblings
Glenn Close	...	Nicolette Cayman
Willem Dafoe	...	Terrence Settman
Marwan Kenzari	...	Adrian Knowles
Christian Rubeck	...	Joe
Pål Sverre Hagen	...	Jerry
Tomiwa Edun	...	Eddie
Cassie Clare	...	Zaquia
Cameron Jack	...	Dutch
Clara Read	...	The Young Settman Siblings
Kirsty Averton	...	Mia
Lucy Pearson	...	Vicky
Nadiv Molcho	...	Young Doctor
Elijah Ungvary	...	Erickson (as Elijah Ungvery)
Vegar Hoel	...	Enforcer Team Leader

Storyline

In a not so distant future, where overpopulation and famine have forced governments to undertake a drastic One-Child Policy, seven identical sisters (all of them portrayed by Noomi Rapace) live a hide-and-seek existence pursued by the Child Allocation Bureau. The Bureau, directed by the fierce Nicolette Cayman (Glenn Close), enforces a strict family-planning agenda that the sisters outwit by taking turns assuming the identity of one person: Karen Settman. Taught by their grandfather (Willem Dafoe) who raised and named them - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday - each can go outside once a week as their common identity, but are only free to be themselves in the prison of their own apartment. That is until, one day, Monday does not come home.

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Plot Keywords:

one child policy | overpopulation | actress playing multiple roles | siblings | septuplets | 

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Taglines:

Seven Sisters. One Identity.

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-MA

Details

Official Sites:

Official site [Japan]

Country:

UK France Belgium

Language:

English

Release Date:

18 August 2017 (USA)

Also Known As:

What Happened to Monday

Filming Locations:

Castel Film Studios, Bucharest, Romania

Company Credits

Production Co:

Vendome Pictures, Nexus Factory, Raffaella Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

123 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital (5.1)

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Netflix bought the streaming rights to the film for the United States and other markets.

Original script by Max Botkin was on the 2010 Blacklist of best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood.

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Goofs

When the little girl who they show go up in flames in the chamber, when the air starts to blow on her face before the fire starts, she visibly reacts to the wind blowing at her by wincing, even though her character was unconscious.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Reporter: In the last 50 years we've doubled our population, tripled the amount of food and water we use, and we have quadrupled the use of fossil fuels. Every four days there's a million more people on the planet. How is the world going to cope with this explosion in population.

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Soundtracks

Fire
Written by Petter Carlsen (as Peter A Carlsen) & Aleksander Kostopoulos
Performed by Pil & Bue
Courtesy of Name Music

User Reviews

Genuinely enjoyed this movie.

It might have been because I hadn't seen a movie in this vein for a while, but it was extremely entertaining! For all its flaws and tropes it's still a very entertaining movie with a huge performance by Noomi Rapace. I would recommend it just for her acting! Oh, and the end; It all comes together very cleanly for the septuplets... storywise, at least, not in the fluffy unicorn parade happy ending you secretly hope for them way.