Sitting on the Edge of Marlene is a Canadian crime drama film, directed by Ana Valine and released in 2014.

[2] An adaptation of Billie Livingston's novella The Trouble with Marlene,[3] the film stars Suzanne Clément as Marlene Bell, a grifter and con artist who is indoctrinating her daughter Sammie (Paloma Kwiatkowski) in the ways of crime with the help of her colleague Fast Freddy (Callum Keith Rennie); meanwhile, Sammie has other ideas about her future, and develops a romantic interest in Drew (Dakota Daulby), a devoutly Christian teenager who hangs out at the local roller rink.

[5] Chris Knight of the National Post gave the film a mixed review, writing that it was uneven but praising Clément and Kwiatkowski's performances.

[4] For Now, Radheyan Simonpillai placed the film in the context of an apparent eruption of mommy issues in Canadian cinema, alongside David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars and Xavier Dolan's Mommy, opining that the character of Marlene "resembles five Dolan characters spun into one" but praising Kwiatkowski for keeping the film anchored in smaller comedic moments.

He concluded that "Sammie's frustrated attempts to escape either through suicide or Jesus are handled with a light touch and feel genuine and quirky, very different from the heavy mugging going on the rest of the time.