Motherhood English Comedy movie 2009
Cast And Crew
Cast Maya Ri Sanchez, Stephanie Szostak,
Anthony Edwards, Minnie Driver, Uma Thurman
Director: Katherine Dieckmann
Producer: John Wells
Screenwriter: Katherine Dieckmann
Art Director: Debbie De Villa
Genre: Comedy
Release Date: October 16, 2009
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for language,
sexual references and a brief drug comment.
Distributor: Freestyle Releasing, LLC
Synopsis
Eliza Welch (Uma Thurman) is like any other mom with two kids, a loving but absent-minded husband (Edwards), and her own mom-blog - yet she's having a day that would challenge even the toughest multi-tasker. Eliza has to throw her daughter's 6th birthday party while a movie crew takes over her block, chase her tireless two-year-old son, navigate playground politics, walk an incontinent dog, juggle a new career opportunity, and realize what is truly valuable in her life... all in one day.
"Motherhood" is a comedy that embraces the joys and heartache of female parenthood. Sometimes hilarious but always touching in its discovery of what one woman loses and gains in choosing to be a mother.
Eliza Welch is a former fiction writer-turned-mom-blogger who lives and works in two rent-stabilized apartments in a walk-up tenement building smack in the middle of an otherwise upscale Greenwich Village. 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.
Motherhood Movie Review
From writer/director Katherine Dieckmann, the acclaimed filmmaker of DIGGERS and A GOOD BABY, comes MOTHERHOOD, starring Uma Thurman, Anthony Edwards and Minnie Driver. Shot entirely on location in New York’s West Village, this bittersweet comedy distills the dilemmas of the maternal state (marriage, work, self, and not necessarily in that order) into the trials and tribulations of one pivotal day. MOTHERHOOD forms a genre of one – no other movie has dedicated itself in quite this way to probing exactly what it takes to be a mother, with both wry humor and an acute sense of authenticity.
This bittersweet comedy distills the dilemmas of the maternal state (marriage, work, self, and not necessarily in that order) into the trials and tribulations of one pivotal day. "Motherhood" forms a genre of one -- no other movie has dedicated itself in quite this way to probing exactly what it takes to be a mother, with both wry humor and an acute sense of authenticity.
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?”
The film takes place over the course of a single day, as Eliza (Uma Thurman) looks after her two young children while struggling to hang on to her own identity as an aspiring writer. Her husband (Anthony Edwards) is preoccupied with his own less-than-stellar career, and her pregnant best friend (Minnie Driver) also needs her attention and advice.
The film has little new to say about the pressures of trying to juggle personal ambition and familial needs, but what makes this outing worthwhile are the vivid details of trying to fight these battles in New York in 2009. Eliza encounters plenty of other frazzled moms on the playground where some people come to spot celebrities. (Jodie Foster has a hilarious cameo as another mom being stalked by paparazzi.) All of the vignettes concerning rude neighbors, cramped apartments and parking nightmares are so well caught that we feel ourselves immersed in Eliza's maddening routines.
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Dieckmann seems aware that Eliza can seem a bit self-indulgent in her carping. An older neighbor comments at one point that women of an earlier generation dealt with the same pressures but never dreamt of complaining, and her remark seems apt. But Thurman brings a lot of grace and conviction to her portrayal, and Edwards makes an engaging foil. The movie's highlight is a scene with a minor character: an Indian messenger (played by charismatic newcomer Arjun Gupta) who strikes some sexual sparks with the bedraggled Eliza. His frenzied dance with Thurman is almost as memorable as her famous dance scene with John Travolta in "Pulp Fiction.
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