MOTHERHOOD Movie Review
October 24, 2009 by Sandie
Filed under Movie Reviews
I recently got a chance to attend a screening for Motherhood which depicts the day of a mother, Eliza (Uma Thurman) as she tries to get ready for her daughter's party while also trying to find a way to balance her own life.
When I went into the movie, I was expecting to watch a fun, enjoyable movie about the tribulations of being a mother, but instead the movie left me thinking about three things 1) I'm so glad I don't have kids, 2) I'm not sure I want to have kids now, 3) if I do end up getting kids, Lord help me from becoming like Eliza.
Now, I'm not saying that motherhood is easy, but it was really hard to relate to Eliza because she was just overwhelmed all the time and it didn't really feel that it was coming from her being a mother, but more because of her character flaws.
Her husband (Anthony Edwards) was pretty absent throughout the film and came off as a real tool, except in the last scene of the film, which in my eyes was not enough to redeem him.
The only character that I actually enjoyed was Eliza's friend Sheila (Minnie Driver). Although she's not a major character, I had fun watching her scenes.
MOTHERHOOD Movie Pictures & Poster
Check out the poster and some pictures from MOTHERHOOD starring Uma Thurman, Anthony Edwards, Minnie Driver, and directed by Katherine Dieckmann.
I just posted the trailer for Motherhood, and thought you might enjoy taking a look at the fun poster and some pictures as well.
Motherhood comes out to theaters on October 23, 2009.
MOTHERHOOD Movie Trailer with Uma Thurman
Check out the trailer for MOTHERHOOD starring Uma Thurman, Anthony Edwards, Minnie Driver, and directed by Katherine Dieckmann.
I posted a picture from Motherhood back in June and now we have a trailer. I don't have much to say about it. Is it something I would rush out to see in theaters? No. But it looks sort of fun, especially if there is nothing else to see that week.
Motherhood will be released to theaters on October 23, 2009. Watch the trailer below.
Motherhood Synopsis: Eliza Welch (Thurman) is a former fiction writer-turned-mom-blogger with her own site, "The Bjorn Identity." Putting her deeper creative ambitions on hold to raise her two children, Eliza lives and works in two rent-stabilized apartments in a walk-up tenement building smack in the middle of an otherwise upscale Greenwich Village. Eliza's good-natured but absent-minded husband (Edwards) seems tuned out to his wife's conflicts, not to mention basic domestic reality, while her best friend Sheila (Minnie Driver) understands this – and Eliza -- all too well.
MOTHERHOOD takes place in a single day that pushes to the tipping point Eliza's fundamental fear she's lost herself. Starting at dawn, her to-do list is daunting: prepare for and throw her daughter's 6th birthday party, mind her toddler son, battle for a parking space during an epic alternate side parking showdown, navigate playground politics with overbearing moms, and mend a rift with after posting her best friend's confession on her blog. On top of it all, Eliza decides to enter a contest run by an upscale parenting magazine. All she has to do is write 500 words answering the deceptively simple question, "What Does Motherhood Mean to Me?"
In the process of trying by nightfall to put these thoughts into words that don't "sound like bad ad copy," Eliza rediscovers her own voice and realizes what is truly valuable in her life. At once hilarious and poignant, MOTHERHOOD looks at the challenges facing mothers everywhere with a keen eye to every slight to a nearly-middle-aged woman's selfhood – from being called "M'am" by condescending twentysomethings to endlessly stooping to pick up toys and a spouse's dropped socks.
MOTHERHOOD Movie Picture with Uma Thurman
Check out a picture from MOTHERHOOD starring Uma Thurman, Minnie Driver, Anthony Edwards, and directed & written by Katherine Dieckmann.
I love Uma Thurman's look in that picture, and the movie sounds actually pretty funny.
Motherhood Synopsis: A mother of two from Manhattan is having a day that would challenge even the toughest maternal multi-tasker.
Motherhood will be released to limited theaters on October 23, 2009.
