Motherhood – Movie Rob‘s Movie Review
ABC Film Challenge – Female Directors – M
“[reading from her 500-word motherhood-themed article for submission to a magazine prize contest] Motherhood is about accepting the limitations of time and energy which stretch beyond you, even though sometimes it feels they can consume you. Search for and hold on to your own true self. If you lose that, what kind of mother can you be? Things are always changing no matter how much we might want things to stay the same. You could take a picture of your kids every single day and every single day they’d just be getting older. That’s a fact, a heartbreaking fact, but still a fact. / So, seize your days and dwell in them fully. Look to your children because they know how to inhabit brief periods of time with extreme passion. And for nothing more, really, than the sake of those moments. They can help you remember that, if you only slow down and let them. Feel fortunate because chances are good you actually might be.” – Eliza
Number of Times Seen – 1 (12 Jul 2024)
Brief Synopsis – A mother of two living in New York needs to try and deal with her hectic life on the day of her daughter’s sixth birthday.
My Take on it – Really underwhelming film that doesn’t work in any way, shape or form. Uma Thurman is a great actress but she and Anthony Edwards have absolutely no chemistry with one another which hurts things too much. The story itself is far too generic and fails to bring anything unique or inspirational to this kind of genre. The characters aren’t developed well enough and most of what happens here is quiet boring and banal. The best part of this movie is a three second cameo by Jodie Foster that tries to show how personable people can be in New York. The way that the film deals with the issues of how a mother is able to mutitask is nice to see even if it also doesn’t help make things more enjoyable. The scene dealing with the way that movie shoots take over streets randomly in New York was done in a very strange way and also doesn’t add to things here at all.
MovieRob’s Favorite Trivia – Grossed $100,000 in the USA in 2009 and, in its UK opening weekend, took a total of £88 – equating to about 11 tickets sold, allegedly making this the lowest grossing film ever released in the UK. From IMDB
Rating – Razzie Worthy (2/10)
