The Wait is a 2013 American independent drama film written and directed by M. Blash, and starring Jena Malone, Chloë Sevigny, Luke Grimes, Devon Gearhart, Michael O'Keefe, and Josh Hamilton.

As a wildfire encroaches on a rural community in central Oregon, adult sisters Angela and Emma mourn their mother, who has just died in her house after a protracted illness.

Moments after her death, Emma receives a bizarre phone call from a woman who tells her that their mother will be resurrected so long as they keep her body in the home.

Angela swiftly dismisses the idea, but relents with Emma's persistence that they wait before calling authorities to remove the body.

The next day, Angela meets Ben, a young man staying with his father nearby, at the grocery store.

Emma becomes increasingly engrossed in superstitions that she believes will bring her mother back to life, including planting marigolds in a cave and performing dances.

Later, while Ian watches the smoke from the fire inside a cave, Emma is visited by her mother, who knocks at the front door.

[11] The film features a rarely heard song by The Cure, "Sugar Girl", a b-side to the UK 12" single for "Just Like Heaven".