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Name: My Dead Friend Zoe
Released: 2025-2-28
Cast: Sonequa Martin-Green, Natalie Morales, Gloria Reuben, Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris

My Dead Friend Zoe

R
1h 42m
2025

95%

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My Dead Friend Zoe is a dark comedy drama that follows the journey of Merit, a U.S. Army Afghanistan veteran who is at odds with her family thanks to the presence of Zoe, her dead best friend from the Army. Despite the persistence of her VA group counselor, the tough love of her mother and the levity of an unexpected love interest, Merit's cozy-dysfunctional friendship with Zoe keeps the duo insulated from the world. That is until Merit's estranged grandfather-holed up at the family's ancestral lake house-begins to lose his way and is in need of the one thing he refuses...help. At its core, this is about a complicated friendship, a divided family and the complex ways in which we process grief.

Director:

Kyle Hausmann-Stokes

Producer:

Paul Scanlan, Kyle Hausmann-Stokes, Terri Lubaroff, Ray Maiello, Mike Field, Richard Silverman, Robert Paschall Jr.

Writer:

Kyle Hausmann-Stokes, AJ Bermudez

Cast:

Sonequa Martin-Green, Natalie Morales, Gloria Reuben, Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris, Utkarsh Ambudkar

Extras

Locked video

A Veteran’s Story: The Journey of MDFZ

14 MIN

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Deleted Scene: "Bird Feeder"

1 MIN

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Deleted Scene: "Goodwill"

49 SEC

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

95%

Critics Consensus: Carrying off painful subject matter with a light touch, My Dead Friend Zoe invites audiences to a healing process that comes with both chuckles and tears.

Reviews

jackiekcooper.com

Jackie K. Cooper

A timely and touching movie which features an outstanding performance by Ed Harris

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Fish Jelly Films (YouTube)

Nicholas Bell

While the film doesn't ultimately match the strength of a lead performance from Sonequa Martin-Green, My Dead Friend Zoe is often emotionally compelling and a unique approach to the examination of PTSD.

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Movie Madness Podcast

Erik Childress

Despite strong performances from Sonequa Martin-Green and Ed Harris, the film’s powerful reminder of how veterans are so often cast aside finds itself overshadowed by the wacky ghostly manifestation of the title and other subplots.

My Dead Friend Zoe will raise awareness among civilians about the realities of the veteran experience. But, if we're all really lucky, its representational qualities, bolstered by Green's performance, will actually save some lives.

My Dead Friend Zoe runs a little long in its final act, but it ultimately succeeds as an exploration of shell shock and mental health, a crowd-pleasing dramedy and a show of appreciation and brotherhood to servicemembers of all stripes.

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