Opening hook For cinephiles who love digging up oddities, AWOL: A Real Mama’s Boy (1973) is a compact curiosity: equal parts social farce and low-budget melodrama, wrapped in the era’s frank, often uncomfortable depiction of family, sexuality, and emasculation.
Once home, he cannot leave. His mother (played by an unknown character actress, possibly a member of The Living Theatre) infantilizes him: she makes him chocolate pudding, calls him “her little soldier,” and hides him in a crawl space. The climax reportedly shows Paulie dressed in his toddler’s footie pajamas, standing before a mirror, saluting a plastic toy gun. awol a real mamas boy 1973
Besides A Real Mama's Boy , the film has been released under several other names for various home media versions, including Inside Mother and simply A.W.O.L. . AWOL (1973) - Full cast & crew - IMDb Opening hook For cinephiles who love digging up
Over the years, it has been released under several titles including Inside Mother Genre & Tone: The climax reportedly shows Paulie dressed in his