Nightbitch movie starring Amy Adams

Searchlight Pictures' “Nightbitch,” starring Amy Adams, will be released in theaters December 6.

According to the official tagline, Adams, a six-time Oscar nominee, plays a woman “thrown into the stay-at-home routine of raising a young child in the suburbs, who slowly embraces the brutal power deeply rooted in motherhood, as she becomes increasingly aware of the strange signs that Her denial, which suggests that she might turn into dogs.

Scott McNairy plays Adams' well-traveled husband. Marielle Heller is writing and directing the film adaptation of Rachel Yoder's acclaimed first novel.

Heller previously directed 2015's The Diary of a Teenage Girl, which earned her an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature, as well as a DGA nomination for Debut Feature Film. Heller's other directorial credits include the Oscar-nominated Fred Rogers film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood and the Melissa McCarthy-starring Can You Ever Forgive Me?, as well as the filmed production of What the Constitution Means to Me.

“Rachel Yoder's book took my breath away,” Heller said when it was announced she would take over as director in 2022. “I haven't felt this way about a book since I read 'Diary of a Teenage Girl' so many years ago. Rachel's dark, funny story of motherhood and rage made me feel seen And adapting it with Amy Adams in mind was the thing that kept me going through the pandemic.

Adams was most recently seen in the 2022 Disney musical “Disenchanted” and will next appear opposite Jenna Ortega in Taika Waititi's film adaptation of “Klara and the Sun.”

“Nightbitch” is produced by Heller, Adams, Anne Curry, Sue Naegle, Christina Oh and Stacey O’Neill.